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...unable even to bewail further the impossibility of expression, has written nothing of significance for twenty years now, except for a few anguished fragments (his publishers have taken to offering new tran-slations of old, discarded texts). John Barth, last he was heard from, was searching for a literary mode that hadn't been sucked dry of every possibility of freshness...
Chronological time rules the work economy, its very rhythms and motions. The prophet of modern work was Frederick W. Taylor, and the stop watch was his rod. If any social upheaval can ever be attributed to one man, the logic of efficiency as a mode of life is due to Taylor. With "scientific management," as formulated by Taylor in 1895, we pass far beyond the old, rough computations of the division of labor and more into the division of time itself...
...wandering the streets. The contrast seemed particularly telling to the travelers, who had come to the Motor City for a conference on Christian responses to the inequities in modern society. The focus of their discussions at Detroit's rambling old Sacred Heart Seminary was a radical new mode of Christian thought: the theology of liberation...
...couldn't help laughing as I read "Mao à la Mode" [July 21]. No real Chinese looks that ridiculous. Even a coolie would crack up looking at those pictures. If I were wearing those stupid clothes, I'd be too embarrassed to leave my rice paddy...
...short order she marries her titled cousin Niles and thus becomes a countess. Whether the marriage is an improvement-whether, in fact, it is a marriage -is a question that remains open till the melodrama's final scenes. Niles is charming and affectionate but in an oddly distant mode. Months after the wedding, Clara remains utterly ignorant of the process by which her species reproduces itself. It is clear that Niles is unduly influenced by his improbable mother and by a coarse, swaggering manservant...