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...addition to his picture duties, he eventually took charge of editorial production and a staff of 175 people. Gruff and authoritarian, he was also fair, compassionate, humorous and fiercely loyal to his staff. According to a coworker, "Even those who didn't like him liked him." Boyd paid ceaseless attention to every detail, worked 100-hour weeks and was never sick. If a cold threatened, his procedure was to stay up all night so that it could not catch him unawares...
...dissolved many conventions, and discredited most institutions and values. Today, says Bell, its victory is complete. There is a perpetual, unwholesome rage for the new. Instead of affirming a "moral-philosophical tradition against which the new could be measured," contemporary culture has an "unprecedented mission: an official, ceaseless search for a new sensibility...
...their narrative style is an experience akin to sitting through hundreds of newsreels booming of "blood-spattered byways" and "hate-inflamed ravings." Moreover, Collins and Lapierre's uncritical admiration for things British creates the impression that colonialists were innocent victims, rather than coauthors, of India's ceaseless agonies. The land and its people deserve more than a series of murals painted in primary colors. Yet even these oversized apologetics are diminished by the vastness of the nation and the tur moil that attended its beginnings. Freedom at Midnight has many flaws, but India is not one of them...
...most industrial unions have acted with restraint during the recession. But last week one big American city after another faced walkouts by workers who were making difficult demands in a time of shrinking resources. The "English sickness"−the affliction that makes work almost an afterthought amid the ceaseless shop-floor broil of whispered conferences, noisy confrontations and tense negotiations−is most virulent in its native land. But the rest of the industrialized world knows that it has no guarantee of immunity against what is happening in Britain...
Capitalism's whole spirit is growth through adaptation to ceaseless change?in prices, profits, technology, consumer tastes. In fact, its intellectual history begins with Adam Smith's effort to explain why and how the natural instincts and capabilities of free men cause economies to change and progress. All this is worthy of being recalled today because it remains little understood...