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...claimed Riesman, who established his academic career decrying trends among our generation in The Lonely Crowd, "but are happy to invoke in loco parentis surreptitiously when they get in trouble." The faculty of a college, Riesman argues, feels ambivalent about the president's power, expecting some sort of errand boy to free them from lowly administrative chores, but skeptical of any real power...
...experts who are psychoanalyzing Little Red Riding Hood [BEHAVIOR, March 19]. I am puzzled by the popularity of a story about a grandmother who cannot live with her children, a mother who does not herself bring the food of charity but sends her little girl on such a dangerous errand, a hunter who does not appear early enough to accompany the child, and a father who does not show up at all. Can it be that the fairy tale tells us more about culture than about human nature...
...celluloid habit of as many as three films a day is unclear. Fritz Lang's "Destiny," he says, "clarified my life and my vision of the world." One result of that clarification was that he saw that he wanted to make films. He started as an extra and errand boy for Jean Epstein during the filming of "Mauprat," then spent six months in Hollywood hanging around the studios and dining with Charlie Chaplin. Back in France, he did "Les Caves du Vatican," which was spliced under a magnifying glass because they'd run out of money...
...over. At last, after so many months of poisonous suspicion, a kind of undeclared civil war that finally engaged all three branches of the American Government, the ordeal had ended. As the Spirit of 76 in one last errand arced across central Missouri carrying Richard Nixon to his retirement, Gerald Rudolph Ford stood in the East Room of the White House, placed his hand upon his eldest son's Bible, and repeated the presidential oath "to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States." By the time the 37th President of the U.S. arrived at the Pacific...
...Thursday, the stock-market crash of 1929. (Its founder, Henry R. Luce, decided to go ahead anyway after learning from the experts that "this slump may last as long as one year.") Luce wanted a magazine of business that would go beyond "the stale Get-Rich Maxims of onetime errand boys." He knew that businessmen got as "kittenish as a Victorian subdeb" when caught in the public eye but was not prepared for how hesitant corporations were to open their doors. In those days, stockholders were entitled to little information, the public to even less: businessmen had not progressed much...