Word: granick
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...EXECUTIVE (334 pp.)-David Granick-Doubleday...
...Yeats warned against a possibly similar event-"the blood-dimmed tide," when a "rough beast, its hour come round at last, / Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born." But things, it seems, are neither so bad, nor so good, nor so interesting. According to the researches of U.S. Economist David Granick, Soviet Russia's new man is a devoutly respectable, ulcer-prone businessman with a close resemblance to George F. Babbitt, of Zenith, U.S.A...
Vladimir F. Babbitt of Nadir, U.S.S.R., clings to status by his clean fingernails with a tenacity that makes many of his U.S. counterparts seem like beatniks by comparison. In Author Granick's "study of the organization man in Russian industry," it almost seems as if the Bolsheviks, having failed to lick the bourgeoisie, had decided to join them...
Although this may be taken as a joke against both sides, Author Granick (who has taught at the Carnegie Institute of Technology and is now at the University of Glasgow on a Fulbright grant) has catalogued the Soviet Org Man's habits and habitat with stern scholarship; his book has more graphs than laughs. But the irony is still there-the rublerouser in his square suit by Hart Schaffner and especially Marx, concerned about work schedules, procurement, and the problem of keeping down with the Joneses...
...Wheel Is a Wheel. Granick's typical top-organization man has a family income of about 65,000 rubles a year, roughly $6,500 a year in U.S. purchasing power. (His U.S. equivalent makes about $25,000; but as the purchasing power of the ruble varies for different commodities and since education and medical care are virtually free, the figures tell only part of the story.) The Red executive earns his ulcer by worry over matters strangely similar to those that furrow the balding brow of the U.S. junior tycoon. One significant difference: not the stockholders' meeting...