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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...grandfather spent a lot of time and money trying to foist Ford's singular economic and political views on employees and the general public, has become a leader among U.S. industries in its nonpartisan efforts to stir more interest in politics. Its Civic and Governmental Affairs Office, set up in 1950, was one of the first of a series of political-education programs established by such firms as General Electric, American Can Co., Aerojet-General and Gulf Oil. The company not only urges its workers and executives to run for public office, but grants a leave of absence with...
...Charles Percy) Snow is a Geiger-counter Galsworthy. Himself trained in science (chemistry and physics). Novelist Snow set out two decades ago on a vast and ambitious project: a cycle of eleven novels, titled Strangers and Brothers, intended to probe the broad upper middle class that dominates science, education and much of government in the age of the Scientific Revolution. In his own way, Snow is writing about Organization Man. His hero is the 20th century manager, science-minded, a born administrator and as typical of his era (in the words of one British critic) "as tyrants were of Renaissance...
...antiquity, says Graves, some mushrooms went by the nickname of "little foxes." This sets the stage for one of his brazenly assured and highly speculative exegeses of Biblical texts. It is highly unlikely, argues Graves, that Samson caught 300 real foxes, set their tails afire and turned them loose to burn the cornfields of the Philistines. What he probably did was to arm 300 soldiers with flaming torches and inflame the men with the mushroom wonder drug. When the lovely Shulamite in The Song of Solomon cries "Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines...
...Tenth Man. The girl is obviously psychotic, but Playwright Paddy Chayefsky-in a strikingly original play set in a Long Island synagogue-suggests that she might be possessed by a dybbuk, an evil spirit that has all but vanished from currency in the age of Freud...