Word: businessmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last of three lectures on "A Businessman looks at the Liberal Arts," Randall asserted that most businessmen seek men with abilities "that can be made immediately effective in the shop...
...BUSINESSMEN IN FICTION...
...pressure of office politics. On the surface, Author Burnett's tale, revolving about a big U.S. airline, is merely one more in the long list of novels, from Frank Norris' The Octopus to Sinclair Lewis' Babbitt and John Dos Passos' The Big Money, that show businessmen at their materialistic worst. Yet for all the angry talk of flint-hearted, fatheaded bosses, there is a big difference in Company Man that is symptomatic of the spate of new novels rediscovering the American business scene. A businessman himself (onetime ad manager for Braniff Airlines), Author Burnett has tried...
There are still some critics who argue that today's authors are no more sympathetic to business than their counterparts of the '30s and earlier. Says White House Economic Adviser Gabriel Hauge: "It's high time to portray the constructive things businessmen do. The motivation is more than money, it's the excitement of creation...
Adds Harvard Assistant Professor Kenneth S. Lynn, writing in the Harvard Business Review: "The lament that businessmen are treated with universal hostility has become less valid with the passage of time...