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...question, Sellars applies a thoughtful interpretation to his work. For him Pericles symbolizes modern American man. His character becomes a latter 20th-century well-to-do Everyman in the odyssey of life. Pericles's court the corporate boardroom and his nobles its directors. Dissatisfied with business life and wary of the evil it can wreak, he leaves Easy Street to live adventure and try his fortune. After ups and downs, he finds his greatest solace in having his own family. Affairs of business (the board of directors wants a new chairman) drive him away again, and in that journey...
House Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill Jr. (D-Mass.) launched one of the loudest salvoes yesterday. "On the same day that President sat down to drink with the working men of Boston, he showed that his heart was still in the corporate boardroom," he said...
...Motors and pumped it back to life. It was De Lorean (so goes the tale) who showed the corporate stuffed shirts the writing on the wall. Where was the fuel-efficient, practical, obsolescence-proof carriage for the common man? asked our ageless pioneer. No one looked up from the boardroom table. The point is that for all his boogying and Ursula Andressing, De Lorean actually understood what...
...career when she met Zanuck, then a struggling scriptwriter, on a blind date. A renowned Hollywood hostess, she zealously sang his praises for years, but the marriage was later marred by Darryl's persistent extramarital affairs and by much publicized family power struggles in the 20th Century-Fox boardroom...
...undergraduates with aspirations outside the realm of Mammon will find it hard not to be a little discouraged by the tone that 'runs through Career Insights, in the most condescending way, executive after executive rationalizes about the value of a liberal arts education on their particular side of the boardroom, "A liberal arts background is important for developing good human management skills," writes one industry chairman. "This is what I call 'human' garment...