Word: work
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...smoke two packs of cigarettes a day and lose their tempers frequently. Fat men should eat heartily to make sure they stay fat. Middle-aged executives should play 72 holes of golf or five sets of tennis singles with a teen-ager every weekend. Above all, every executive should work as if there were 28 hours in each day, and whenever an ailment crops up, avoid doctors and treat it himself...
...newspaper columnist (60 papers), makes a plea for good sense and moderation in the businessman's own terms. "The prematurely sick or dead executive is a failure," says Steincrohn. "He has let down his family, his friends, his corporation. And often the executive most brilliant in his work may be the most stubborn and obtuse when it comes to keeping healthy and staying alive...
...Busy executives should not be at the mercy of jangling, work-disruptive telephone calls. Secretaries should be instructed to take all calls, let the businessman call back at fixed telephone breaks in his daily schedule...
...Personally," Painter Jean Dubuffet once declared, "I believe very much in values of savagery. I mean: instinct, passion, mood, violence, madness." No one can accuse Dubuffet of being false to his credo, for his paintings (see color) often seem to be the work of a savage or a madman-or a child. They have caused gasps of shock and hoots of derision; yet today a Dubuffet canvas can command as much as $30,000, and among critics it is now the thing to say that Dubuffet himself is the most important painter to come out of postwar France...
...Jean Dubuffet had a great deal in his head, and because he did, his work took on a special excitement. His philosophy, such as it is, amounted to sweeping rejection of Europe's cherished art traditions. Occidental culture, he said, had become "a game of ceremonies," and he bluntly declared that "I would not go across the street to see a Renaissance painting." He blamed the Greeks for exalting the idea of beauty. At best, he insisted, beauty was a cruel ideal ("It is distressing to think about people deprived of beauty because they have not a straight nose...