Word: spiriting
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...wedding night is spent in a bower on the edge of a clearing in the jungle, Merilee and Sam and Girl and Alfred surrounded by oleanders and watched over by the spirit of the jade-eyed jaguar and most of the children of Palenque, who hang like exotic globed fruit in the trees above them. Mean temperature 89 degrees Farenheit. During the consummation Merilee meows and meows. Alfred and Girl hardly blink, the jaguar is not surprised, but the children find it strange and wonderful the way gringos do it, and their curiosity is satisfied...
Being outside has also helped the team's spirit. The stickmen had been practicing nights in Briggs Cage, where they had to contend with a pitcher's mound and burned out lights which Buildings and Grounds never got around to replacing...
...urban society of the present time. "People are no longer turned on by the Protestant Ethic," says Abraham Zaleznik, a professor at the Harvard Business School. To some, the Protestant Ethic?hard work is a virtue for its own sake?appears to have been replaced by an almost Mediterranean spirit, a spreading belief that men should work no more than they must to enjoy the good life and worldly pleasures. "There has been a steady and consistent reduction in the commitment of men to work as a way of life," says Lane Kirkland, secretary-treasurer of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. "That...
That is precisely the spirit that the first of the stopwatch-toting efficiency experts, Frederick Winslow Taylor, condemned in 1911 as "the greatest evil with which the working people are now afflicted." In a yard where laborers were loading 12½ tons of pig iron each aboard flatcars every day, he taught one worker named Schmidt to load 47½ tons by changing the movements he used to lift the 92-lb. bars and the speed at which he walked to the flatcar.* Taylor's ideas were expanded by Frank Gilbreth, who contended that there must be "one best way" of doing...
...informal office that serves as a "social circle" for employees, says Eric Larrabee, an administrator at the State University of New York at Buffalo, may look sloppy to outsiders but is usually quite efficient. Its employees, he reasons, develop a community spirit, learn one another's strengths and weaknesses, and "adopt a kind of rhythm" that enables them to produce work quickly with a minimum of fuss. This is not likely to be achieved in a business environment totally dominated by men. "Women," contends Larrabee, "are much more efficient in offices than...