Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...LARGER developments that Gutman describes and documents in his title essay, the most theoretically ambitious in the collection of reprinted articles. In "Work, Culture and Society," Gutman presents his most striking case for the reexamination of labor history, at least during the industrializing process in America in the 19th century. He concentrates on three important phenomena among the working class populations: the different work habits and expectations workers brought to new factories from their diverse backgrounds; the social and cultural continuities in the lives of craftsmen and artisans during America's industrializing period; and similarities between forms of American working...
...about movies than Kael. They move and compel her to weigh each nuance, to mull over each jarring image, and to track down every pop association like an amateur sociologist-sleuth. She even lifts and carries the torah for the whole creative tradition in her long, worried, and proscriptive essay on the film industry, "On the Future of the Movies." And when she's in top form, Kael merits the hackneyed testimonial, "she cares enough to be brilliant." Hopefully she will weather the hyperbolic fuss over film critics (these are only movie reviews, after all) and get over her recent...
...special, which might be tough for them to do on their own." Esquire chose both the subject and the writer, and Xerox approved the selection. Under the terms of the sponsorship agreement, Xerox paid Salisbury a handsome $40,000 for the six months' work he put into the essay, as well as $15,000 in expenses; in addition, the company took out $115,000 worth...
There was also an important codicil: Xerox would have no editorial control over the essay. If the company had disapproved of it, Esquire would have been free to publish it anyway−and keep the money. Says Salisbury: "I saw no ethical impediments to doing the piece. After all, big corporations like Xerox and Texaco commission operas and other cultural enterprises. Meanwhile, the poor magazines have been dwindling away over the years, and along with them the employment of writers." For its part, Esquire was equally unfazed by the unusual arrangement...
Still, it is by his social theories that the new Jock Lit author tries finally to establish authority. The rambling nature of Michener's essay−chapter headings range from "The Media" to "Government Control"−allows him plenty of room for obiter dicta. They are all too predictable. Solemnly he warns against "the jungle of juvenile sports competition." As if it were a late bulletin, he announces that professional sports have become too violent ("I am worried about ice hockey"). He also worries about women athletes' vulnerability to foot injury, but he is, of course, for women...