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Lack of experience-or of anything else-has never slowed down Kakuei Tanaka. A fast-talking, 160-lb. dynamo popularly known as "the Computerized Bulldozer," he is Japan's youngest (54) postwar Premier and the first to come from outside the narrow university-bred elite that has produced almost all Japanese leaders since World War II. The son of a poor cattle dealer, Tanaka vaulted into the upper reaches of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party after he had made millions in construction and land development. Traditional Japanese diplomats have been heard to grumble that their blunt-spoken new boss...
Today, from Iberia to Scandinavia, a group of aggressive, dynamic businessmen are doing just that. Multinational in their attitudes, multilingual and young-at least by Continental standards-they are quietly changing the style and stepping up the pace of European business. In executive offices where well-bred formality and old school ties were once the rule, there is now less hierarchical authoritarianism and more promotion based on merit alone. Family connections may still be important, but class lines are melting. Indeed, many a European is beginning to act more like the European conception of a hard-driving American executive than...
...among his readers; he manages to convey some sense of the strengths and well-harnessed passions that underlie the propriety of his WASP characters. There has always been a strain of unintended comedy in this kind of mannerly fiction, however. The habits and rituals of Auchincloss's well-bred people-moneyed Protestants in the backwaters of the Eastern Establishment -are in themselves no more ridiculous than those of other groups. But the author is so solemn about them that when his control lapses, reader mutiny results, mostly in the form of attacks of the snickers...
...line logrolling Democrats. "An alliance between the intellectual and economic elite and the lower-class backs faces middle and working class ethnics. Two educational philosophies, one promoting innovation and the academic curriculum, the other emphasizing discipline and occupational education struggle for supremacy. A home town boy born and bred is pitted against a well-traveled black from Chicago and the South...
Most importantly, you learn the absurdity of regional rivalries, Yes know from experience that they rest mostly on the power of suggestion-that in-bred notion that Southerners just have to be different or that Northerners do (depending on your geographical location...