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Organized labor is less than ever a monolithic segment of a fragmented national society. No more can it afford to make purely demagogic demands of industry, and to an unprece dented degree, labor and management are forced to work together. In this sense, Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz is fond of quoting Lewis Carroll's Hunting of the Snark...
...hours a day. As the strike deadline loomed, Johnson cut the lunchtime lag by sending in steaks and ice cream "to keep them hard at it." Toward week's end he talked direly of transporting both teams bodily to the LBJ Ranch where, he is fond of observing, the September sun can be a powerful persuader...
...Everest. A Madison Avenue executive back from Martha's Vineyard this month confessed that he had attacked Dante's Divine Comedy for the fifth straight year, only to bog down once again in the first canto. "But," he added bravely, "I'm getting sort of fond of Inferno." His secret hope, and that of many another frustrated bibliophile, is that next year it will rain during his entire vacation...
Algren feels that Hemingway's honor has been savaged by highbrow critics, who have claimed that Hemingway was merely a lucky oaf who wrote with his muscles and was suspiciously fond of assassinating lions. Algren's efforts to disprove the charges are compulsive, all right, but painfully ineffective...
...Carnovsky does, however, pull off this opening scene magnificently. Why, then, reduce himself to a truly "foolish fond old man" who staggers aimlessly about the heath as though he were saying, "Well, lousy daughters run you crazy. What can you do?" And this attitude carries over even into the mock trial, which is busy, unfocussed, and unbelievable...