Word: colman
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...chair of the Gillette Company, Colman M. Mockler Jr. '52, a member of the Harvard Corporation, describes the Sensor as follows: "It gives the best shave I've ever had by far. And it gives it time after time. This one's for everybody...
Democracy seems only to be in Colman Mockler's heart when it comes to razors. He has no problem with trying to snatch a bigger share of the world's $2.4 billion razor market for himself. Or with owning a South African subsidiary. Or with serving as one of seven people who as the Harvard Corporation can make any decision they want to about this university without being accountable to anyone...
...would be easy to end our examination of this new consumer product by condemning corporate America and the men who make it work. But maybe they're on to something this time. Maybe Colman Mockler knows something about the importance of shaving that I don't know. Maybe when everyone's face is as smooth as a baby's but we'll all get along and never disagree. Then the Democracy of the Razor will be the only important democracy, since we'll all support the Corporation anyway...
SASC activists, who would have been protesting Harvard's $163 million in South Africa-related holdings, had originally planned to visit the Prudential Center office of Colman M. Mockler '52 on Monday. Mockler is the chief executive officer of the Gillette Company...
Schama's splendid recounting soon convinces us, however, that much of what we thought we knew is wrong, a collection of Hollywood versions of 19th century romances: Leslie Howard as "that demmed elusive Pimpernel," or Ronald Colman doing a "far, far better thing" by accepting the fate prescribed by Dickens in A Tale of Two Cities. Schama's reality is very different from the legends...