Word: fatherness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...addition to Oliver on the ice they shot Ali in the sidelines (shouting "Knock his block off Oliver!") and Oliver's father on the other side-although that might have been another game. There's a lot happening on location that you never see on screen. I couldn't figure things out exactly, but sometimes we were at Harvard playing Dartmouth, and sometimes at Cornell-with the help of a few banners and some desultory interior decorating. Cornell lent its uniforms on the condition that its team be shown winning, but Dartmouth seemed to consider it an honor...
...Scout Pack. Once in, the salesman-typically an ex-farm boy, gas-station attendant or school dropout-receives Beyer's brand of inspirational leadership. "You think of what a psychiatrist does or how a good father brings up a child," he says. "If a salesman does something terrible, we convince him that under normal circumstances he would never have done that, that he's a much finer person than that...
...whom Penn Life selects to be the local managers are crucial to the system. Each is expected to be a father image to a five-man group of salesmen. The manager is trained more in lay psychology than in selling, and acts as a moral-rearmer when the salesman's spirit flags. "The manager's whole life, his home, his wife, his family, become the center of social activity for that sales force," says Beyer. "An army is disciplined out of fear; our men are disciplined out of loyalty to a leader, like a Cub Scout pack would...
...Vice-Chairman Burton Borman. "We are beyond working for a living," says Beyer. "We would like to build a billion-dollar company. It has become an extension of our egos, because pur egos soar, and we want to keep building and getting accolades. We also enjoy money." Apparently these father images also enjoy the responsibility of looking after an ever-larger family of salesmen...
This is the Arlo Guthrie Book. 95 pages. Amsco Music. $2.95. A letter about love to his draft board, his eighth-grade report card, pictures of Arlo with his father (the late Woody Guthrie), pictures of Arlo singing, words and music to his songs-especially Alice's Restaurant-all provide delectations and deliriums for Arlo admirers...