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Forget In boxes, organizational charts and exhausting hours -- they are all symptoms of hidebound management. Thus declares Love and Profit (Morrow; 213 pages; $16.95), James Autry's provocative account of his philosophy as president of Meredith magazines. A skilled amateur poet, Autry fills his book with prose and verse reflections on the nature of business and the role of bosses and workers. He views management as a "helping profession" and a "sacred trust" whose job -- as the Army slogan puts it -- means encouraging workers to be all that they...
...attack. The first: by putting "low" culture -- graffiti, mass print, caricature, comic strips and so forth -- in the museum along with "high," MOMA, under the new curatorial leadership of Kirk Varnedoe, has abandoned its sacred mission of cultural discrimination. The second, and more hip, version: MOMA is too hidebound and elitist an institution to deal with popular culture, or with the recent "high" culture of the '80s, at all. As the clippings pile up, one may expect to see many variations on these themes. One, common to both, is that the show has too many familiar works -- as though there...
Unity was enforced and nationalist ambitions suppressed over the decades with ruthless coercion by the KGB, supplemented by privileges for the local party leaders who carried out Moscow's directives. Under Gorbachev, the use of force inside the Soviet Union was discouraged, and the party's hidebound patronage system came under direct attack. By denouncing the government's "command-administrati ve" methods, Gorbachev hoped to invigorate the system and increase its efficiency...
...link in the chain is the lack of departmental status. A department means independence. It means having tenured professors, courses. An identity. It's the first step toward the full acknowledgement that must come before a field gains real legitimacy in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences' hidebound bureaucracy...
...more. Not on the calendar, and not in the heart. Now rock has some 30 years of history behind it. That's time enough, and weight enough, to make it hidebound...