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...TIME 25, April 21] was a sad commentary on the direction in which American society is evolving. There was a time when American icons influenced history by their strong moral leadership. Today they are predominantly career bureaucrats, par-tisan activists, shallow entertainers, mediocre musicians, salvation gurus, shock artists and others who make a living dredging the murky depths of society. In a society where the social fabric is frayed and there is little role for human values, any icon that people can cling to seems a good one. The process that makes most of your list influential is the same...
...category is missing from your list. We are not financial gurus from Wall Street, but we teach our children the value of a dollar. We are not famous athletes, but we play catch or soccer with our youngsters. You won't find us on the best-seller list or in the latest rock video, but we read to our kids every night and sing silly songs with a three-year-old. We are the legions of parents who have the opportunity to influence our children and ultimately the future. TIM SCHONTA Elmhurst, Illinois...
...which management gurus strive to push decision making down the chain, E-mail has made it easier for middle managers to shun responsibility by bucking decisions up the ladder. A worker who would shy from seeking an appointment with the boss to resolve an issue often bats out a "What do you think?" message on the most trivial of matters...
Someone might take a tape, though. To listen is not to read (especially if the book is abridged), but it's close enough for many. Audiobooks, long tainted by their association with motivational infomercial gurus, got a sorely needed cultural seal of approval when Hillary Clinton received a Grammy Award for her spoken version of her book, It Takes a Village. The market for audiobooks is booming. That may be, in part, because they are compact and convenient and offer pseudo intimacy with sages and celebrities. The forthcoming John F. Kennedy: A Journey to Camelot by Paul Werth will...
...least, Coleman and a chorus of like-minded gurus may well have it right. Since the Dow stood at 3300 four years ago, the tireless trend of the market has reflected an astonishingly resilient and inflation-free U.S. expansion that, like the Energizer Bunny, just keeps going. The economy grew at a robust 4.7% rate in the fourth quarter of 1996, for example, and last week the government reported that consumer prices rose a barely perceptible 0.1% in January...