Word: denney
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...roots to understanding this problem may lie in a dichotomy emphasized over 25 years ago by David Reisman, Nathan Glazer and Reuel Denney in The Lonely Crowd. In this study of the changing American social character, the authors identified traits of two opposing social characters: those they called "inner-directed" and those deemed "other directed." The inner-directed person, they said, "tends to think of work in terms of non-human objects," wanting money or power or fame or some other tangible reward for performance, and seeing and experiencing things primarily "in terms of technological and intellectual processes...
...James D. Denney...
...with rather shop worn material; but at least it gets a lot of laughs out of it. The author also displays the greatest comic gift of all, knowing when to end his play before the audience starts to tire of the joke. The actors are all skillful, especially Caroline Denney as Edith Fromage and Roger Mead as Jane's Protean brother...