Word: cobb
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...commanding officer, Lieut. Colonel Doris M. Cobb, called her in for counseling and pointedly reminded her that the Army word for such liaisons is "fraternization...
...Shit, you know Charlie Cobb, he's a freakoid cracker. Freakoid crackers are individualists to an extreme degree. They smoke, but they know its gotta be kept a secret from the rest of the world. They might have been to Vietnam and started smokin there. But one thing they don't like is freaks. They don't like to be considered freaks. They consider freaks lazy. They might have hair down to their assholes, but they're willing to get out and shovel shit and dig ditches. They don't look down on any chore that needs doin...
...Cobb, exploration chief for Shell...
...psychological, internalized injuries Sennett and Cobb describe are forces which maintain the usually silent middle America that politicians extoll: forces which somehow fail to take hold fully in the hard living families. But though the hard living families in Howell's book have escaped from the conventional worker's world, they are no better off. They have traded a slow-paced life of hidden injury for a more exuberent life in which the injuries are more direct and economic. Neither Howell nor Sennett and Cobb begin to analyze what causes the against-the-mainstream behavior of the hard living families...
SENNETT AND COBB are far more ambitious. They recognize that the mechanisms of class may sometimes, fail to hold workers in--they treat the question of revolt and the "intensity of pent-up feeling" which revolt releases--but they do not consider the hard living families who give up on middle-class dreams and retreat from society rather than attack it. Yet their book goes far beyond other books based on interviews in that they attempt to create a comprehensive modern theory of class structure as it holds for the majority of people. Drawing together thoughts from philosophers and modern...