Word: entrepreneurism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Milton E. Cohen, the Square's latest entrepreneur, is a short-order cook and also what J. B. Priestly would call an Antiant. Antiants, you know, are men dedicated to the fight against the man-produced society, and Milty is a batallion in himself. For he believes that cheap sandwiches can be good and can command the interest of both counter-man and consumer. Milty's own phrase is "I don't make sandwiches, I build 'em"--and that's a pretty stirring battle cry to my ears...
...expected to spend all his adult life with one company or risk being branded a job-hopper. In Germany the word "manager" has a disreputable ring and tends to be associated with boxing promoters; real status in German business is reserved for the Unternehmer, the risk-taking owner-entrepreneur. So addicted is Germany to the family-operated enterprise that some wealthy German families retain the power to fire the chief executive of corporations in which they have long since abandoned their controlling interest...
...such does become the case, one of the men most responsible for the realization of the scheme will be Frank P. Davidson '39, a New York lawyer and longtime entrepreneur in the field of staggering ideas...
Seething a Kid. Much of this has the makings of dreadful humor. In The Brother, O'Brien has turned loose a memorably monstrous archetypal entrepreneur who, if he could turn a pennyworth of profit, would not only seethe a kid in its mother's milk but invite the dam to dine on it. What in the end spoils the fun is that O'Brien does not keep the goings on entirely in the cartoon world of outrageous literary parody and exaggeration where death, as Brendan Behan puts it, has lost its "sting-aling-aling." Grimy realism crops...
...wasn't a needle at all. One of the group had bought a special pencil, was marking the backs of hands with symbols that would show up under the ultraviolet lamp used by a local casino to check admissions to the twist dance that night. The entrepreneur was doing a rush business. Regular admission price: $1.70. His rate...