Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...actual situations in Any Wednesday are neither wicked nor sexy, just amusingly compromising. A neophyte secretary, innocently directing proper strangers to the improper address, sends around Cass Henderson (Gene Hackman), an irately appealing small businessman who has come to town to beard John Cleves. When Mrs. John Cleves drops in, Cass poses obligingly as Ellen's husband. When John barges in, all four characters fall sudden prey to lockjaw or dropjaw. Then the comedy slacks into matchmaking...
...poetic philosophizing, it is nonetheless peppered with brilliant epigrams and witty repartee. For all its use of the historical Marco Polo and exotic sites in medieval Venice, Persia, India, Mongolia and Cathay, there is no mistaking that the target of this epic satire was the materialistic and acquisitive American businessman-a creature that O'Neill also examined in Desire Under the Elms, The Great God Brown, and Long Day's Journey Into Night, and one that still confronts us on every side, in a more notoriously tired form, perhaps, than that characteristic of the twenties. The chief model...
...every businessman knows, litigation of commercial quarrels can be agonizingly slow and annoyingly expensive. In many U.S. cities it takes months or years to bring a suit to trial; beyond that lie the delays of appeal. Meanwhile, costs pile up and claims remain unpaid. There is many a program for speeding up justice but reform, too, moves slowly...
...course of piling up a $50 million fortune, Ohio Businessman Edward Lamb has drifted farther and farther away from his first profession-the law. Last week, in a speech at the Harvard Business School, Lamb offered an explanation of sorts: "The importance and influence of the legal profession in the United States and elsewhere is rap idly declining." The lawyer, said sometime-Lawyer Lamb, is being supplanted in power and influence by the professional manager. "In my opinion, the American and international leaders of the future will come increasingly from our schools of business administration and less and less from...
...guiding hand in this rush of activity belongs to Chairman Austin T. ("Joe") Cushman, 62, who seems too soft-spoken and shy to be chief executive of a bullish corporation like Sears. "I met him at dinner one night," says one Chicago businessman, "and it took me all evening to discover that he ran Sears." Inside the company, Cushman is not so reticent. Unlike retired Predecessor Charles H. Kellstadt, whose job he took over two years ago, Cushman delegates responsibility liberally and treats subordinates genially, but keeps a cold eye on profit and loss reports. "Men, merchandise, methods and money...