Word: hals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hal, your behavior is childish." said the brash young public relations man to the prosperous middle-aged salesman. "I actually feel I can carry on a deeper conversation with my two-year-old daughter than I can with you." Hal may have felt like lashing out at his young critic, but instead he accepted the slur as if he had merely been done a candid favor. He had to, because both men were taking part in a Sensitivity Training Workshop, one of the fastest-spreading of U.S. management's many devices for putting a keen edge on executives...
...past nine weeks, Hal and the 15 others in his Sensitivity Training Group have met for one uncomfortable, four-hour session each week at the University of California at Los Angeles. The sessions are deliberately unorganized: the participants sit facing one another in a circle, and nothing is said until the boldest of the group dares to break the silence by introducing himself and perhaps guardedly adding what he hopes to get from the course. Then begin the rambling conversations that wind up with each member of the group dishing out and receiving scathing personal criticism. Inevitably, a few members...
Hopefully, the bloodbath of criticism-which is very much like the "chewing out" sessions of college fraternities and sororities-will send Hal back to his company better able to see himself as others see him, more willing to listen to his subordinates and inspired with a will to correct the faults he has been told he has. Explains one of the directors of the U.C.L.A. sessions: "The trainees become more sensitive, more tolerant. They have learned to ask the question of whether the problem is in me rather than in him." Others call it training in conformity...
Summer and Smoke (Hal Wallis; Paramount). Playwright Tennessee Williams often writes like an arrested adolescent who disarmingly imagines that he will attain stature if (as short boys are advised in Dixie) he loads enough manure in his shoes. In his most famous plays he has hallucinated a vast but specious pageant of depravity in which fantasies of incest, cannibalism, murder, rape, sodomy and drug addiction constitute the canon of reality. Yet Broadway's bad boy has his sweet-mouthed moments, and Summer and Smoke (1948) is one of them: one of the few plays Williams obviously wrote primarily...
...Mickey Mantle in home runs, 61-54, during this year's race with the Ruthian record, last week outpolled him among the baseball press, 202-198, to become the American League's most valuable player for the second consecutive year (previous back-to-back winners: Jimmy Foxx, Hal Newhouser, Yogi Berra and Mantle...