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...questioning minds at Baldwin-Nelson, only "the questioning mind must ask the same questions we ask." He describes the familial intimacy of corporate life, complete with a tidy housing development ("Some of the houses are colonial, some Tudor, but the best ones are both"). After further visits by the org man, Pilgrim decides to end the demeaning charade, only to find that the interviewer has seen through the conformity act all along, and has a few cellos of his own hidden away...
...Succeed in Business Without Really Trying slyly paints a mustache on the corporate image. Robert Morse powers this musical with his ebullient portrayal of an Org Man rocketing...
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...
...Org Man has little worry about labor (safety devices are at a cynical minimum in Soviet factories) and none about sales: the consumer is a captive of universal shortage. Also, he must learn the art of inconspicuous consumption. A house might cause the sort of talk -or even worse, an investigation-that would be provoked in Larchmont if a junior executive invested a windfall in a Rolls-Royce. Not long ago, Sometskaya Rossia launched a campaign against luxury-loving dachniks (TIME...
Ward Howell weeded the list down to six applicants, three of whom were interviewed by the symphony board. Last week Ward Howell's ideal org man of music was on his way to the West Coast. His name: George Adrian Kuyper, longtime manager of the Chicago Symphony, a sometime English instructor (University of Michigan), associate manager of the Boston Symphony and onetime amateur violinist. Kuyper, it turned out, was 60-ten years above the recommended...