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...management lore, another calls it "outrageous." A third cautions that junior executives cannot learn to become gamesmen by reading the book: the skills and attitudes are instinctive, "not like learning geometry." But Maccoby did not intend his work as instruction, only as description. In that capacity, it should fuel cocktail-party and water-cooler discussion for months, as workers try to classify their bosses-and themselves-according to Maccoby's types...
...foregoing the lesser-known though equally deserving works. The Boston Symphony is fortunate in having the satellite Boston Pops (which is composed primarily of Symphony players) to gross a huge annual sum. Through record sales (Arthur Fiedler has sold more records than any conductor in the world), television appearances, cocktail longesque "Evening At Pops", Esplanade concerts, Arthur Fiedler wrist watches and all manner of red-white-and-blue paraphernalia honoring Boston's "Most Outstanding Citizen", as Fiedler was names several years ago, Pops has been able to financially sustain both itself and its host...
...than its men's slacks. Perhaps in an attempt to cash in on male masochistic feelings, he is planning a new campaign showing women abusing men. Says Miles: "We haven't quite worked it out yet, but the woman might be slapping the guy or throwing a cocktail in his face. I don't think women deserve to be beaten any more than...
Perhaps. But though he is preoccupied with fashion. Wolfe is remarkably unfashionable. His book is crammed with opinions that could get him banned from liberal cocktail parties for life. For example, he notes that the restrictions imposed by the Johnson Administration on the bombing of Hanoi and Haiphong forced Navy pilots to take unreasonable and pointless risks−and needlessly killed hundreds of them. At the height of the Viet Nam protests, amid cries that fascism was at hand. Americans "had, and exercised, the most extraordinary political freedom and civil rights in all history." The sexual revolution ,means that people...
...went, up the face of one of those Riverside Drive apartments he pretends to despise so much. Peering in through the picture window he discovered, in a perverse parallel to Orwell's Animal Farm, that there's no difference between him and the writers at the cocktail party inside, that in fact, he's a lot worse than what he tried to supplant. During the trial of the Chicago Eight, J. Anthony Lukas '55, who covered it for The New York Times, tried to insert David Dellinger's comment, "Oh bullshit," (for which Judge Julius Hoffman revoked his bail) into...