Word: ende
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most people employed it they would be nagged to distraction by their wives. A more practical technique is Creative Incompetence, or "creating the impression that you have already reached your level of incompetence." Peter says that "for a clerical worker, leaving one's desk drawers open at the end of the working day will, in some hierarchies, have the desired effect." Other workers may have to shun the official coffee break or park in the boss's parking place occasionally. For women, "overly strong perfume works well in many cases." Should instant promotion threaten, more extreme action...
...that the orchestra and offstage chorus required no fewer than 30 rehearsals. Yun's use of twelve-tone rows is as free as his theatrical fantasy. The singers often had to master unaccompanied vocal lines, and the orchestra itself was augmented by whips, rattles and bells. At the end, as color projections were flashed onto a transparent curtain, boulder-size clusters of tone shot from the orchestra, and twelve percussion instruments went wild with pings, thumps, roars and growling glissandi. Then the tumultuous sound dissolved as mysteriously as it had arisen. Silence. Curtain...
Major? She has proclaimed no new doctrines, founded no new school. But with this show, she has demonstrated that she has a clear and distinctive talent of high skill, great beauty and the kind of excitement that comes with the sense that the end is not yet in sight...
...efforts to hire the hard-core unemployed, Ford has increasingly reached into the ghettos to recruit and train workers. Through this program, Ford has hired 7,700 of its present nationwide work force of 175,000. When production cutbacks brought the layoff of some 3,200 workers by the end of February, however, most of those affected were recently hired ghetto dwellers...
...Free Diversions. In Japan, the system for subsidizing executive fun and games works somewhat differently. At the end of each month, women who run geisha houses and popular bars troop to the accounting departments of big firms. Each visitor carries sheafs of bills and whispers the name of the executive-san concerned. They are paid, no questions asked. The Japanese executive has the world's most generous expense account for nocturnal diversions. A government survey found that in 1967, Japanese businessmen spent $1.4 billion on nontaxable "official entertainment." The 1,140 bars along Tokyo's Ginza depend...