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...society and its hierarchies. In the end, Sennett and Cobb present a utopian picture of a world with diverse standards of achievement where every man can feel his worth, but unfortunately this is also a picture which includes a surprisingly superficial and rather distressingly nostalgic presentation about the guild system of the early Italian Renaissance. The book is an important contribution to thinking about class in terms of feelings, but the conclusion's simplicity only emphasizes the need for a new economic approach to class synthesized with the subtle, but narrow, approach which Sennett and Cobb present...
...survey consisted of a questionnaire with more than 1,000 items compiled by the Research Guild, Inc. of Chicago. All of this cost the Playboy Foundation $125,000, and the magazine is now mining the research for a series of detailed reports by Morion Hunt, which will appear in the next five issues of Playboy. Hunt, who has written books on extramarital sex, crime and divorce, supplemented the pollsters' work with 200 lengthy interviews of his own for a book-length treatment of the survey to be published next spring. In the October issue of Playboy, Hunt summarizes...
...heave bundles of papers on and off the trucks. A new automated delivery system can do much of their work. The Post-Dispatch offered to train the men for other jobs; Teamster negotiators said no, that the men must remain in their present slots. When the Newspaper Guild supported the Teamster action, the rival Globe-Democrat-which uses Post-Dispatch presses-locked its doors. As other metropolitan dailies have learned, strikes over automation can be much more ferocious than pay disputes. Given the Teamsters' wealth, St. Louis newspaper readers and employees may have ample time to learn that...
Palestrina: The Song of Songs (Prague Madrigal Choir; Miroslav Venhoda conductor; Vanguard/ Bach Guild, $2.98). The great Renaissance polyphonist, best known for soaring church works like the Pope Marcellus Mass, here took his text, somewhat uncharacteristically, from Solomon's highly sensuous biblical verses: "A bundle of myrrh is my well beloved unto me; he shall lie all night betwixt my breasts." The result: one of Palestrina's two or three loveliest works, sung movingly by the Czech performers...
Television's summertime miniseason is even more mini than usual this year. The 16-week Writers Guild of America strike, settled six weeks ago, reduced both the quantity and quality of new summer-replacement shows. With fresh scripts unavailable, CBS opted out of the season altogether; ABC and NBC scrimped up four and two new entries respectively. Most of them reinforce the notion that summer is the time to enjoy the great outdoors. A sampling...