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Riesman's informality does not disturb these particularly; indeed, several essays are devoted to defending his style and format. But as formidable assemblage dissects the Crowd concept by concept and definition by definition, this spectre of formal rigor re-Words like values, social character, social power are steadily and carefully redefined throughout the book, and author after author sets up a framework to discuss American society...
...defies understanding, his influence on journalism can be measured with micrometer accuracy. It was heavy, lasting, and often malign. The conclusion is unavoidable, and Swanberg, for all his book's devotion to impartiality, draws it again and again. "Considerations of taste in journalism didn't disturb him," the biographer reports. "He had long since decided that the masses had no time or training for such a luxury as taste, and could be reached and molded most effeclively by the noise, sensation and repetition which he liked himself." The Hearst-papers, Swanberg argues, "were not newspapers at all. They...
...face of someone to whom nothing had happened; or, perhaps, so much had happened to her that each event wiped out what had happened before. I was disturbed by something in her-the lack of history, I think." It is the lack of history-suffered by the heroine of this book's title story-that must disturb any reader of Critic-Novelist V. S. Pritchett's haunting tales. The characters who move through these pages have arrived from places the reader has never visited and by routes he will never know. But for several minutes of terrifying...
Undisturbed. This threat did not seem to disturb Reuther unduly. The U.A.W. strike fund stands at $42 million-enough to pay strike benefits to G.M.'s 310,000 workers for almost two months. According to automen. Reuther was also counting on Government intervention in the event of a long strike; already the automen charged the Government had. in effect, intervened in Reuther's favor by negotiating a six-day extension of the Aug. 31 contract deadline -a move which will enable U.A.W. workers to collect $10.9 million in holiday pay for Labor...
...career at a Stockholm school of industrial arts, where she fashioned everything from parts of automobile chassis to handwrought silver chalices. Drawn to Paris, she set up shop in a cheap Left Bank hotel, developed the technique that she has followed fairly consistently ever since. Not wishing to disturb her fellow tenants by hammering, she would draw and file her silver strips until they could be bent and twisted and hooked into graceful designs...