Word: humanation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...expansive ground floor of Paris' Musée National d'Art Moderne looked like a specter-haunted landscape from Mars. Birdmen, ten inches tall, made up of a human thorax, bare-boned ribs and a spinal column topped by oversized beak and reptilian eyes, stared back at the spectators. A human-size Praying Mantis in female form crouched ready to spring; a Shepherd with half-decayed body tottering on three spindle legs looked more like an abandoned sheep carcass than a human figure. The reason for this nightmare in Paris last week: 82 pieces finished in the last...
...mirror, the average U.S. businessman sees an unyielding and uncompromising conservative face; yet he has been largely responsible for the dynamic forward drive of the U.S. economy that has had a revolutionary effect on American life. As the businessman has helped to sustain economic stability and translate it into human progress, he has assisted in a more sweeping democratization of society than dreamers dared prophesy a quarter-century...
Industry's emphasis on human values has also been prompted by self-interest. Says Banker Smith: "In the 19205 most business leaders stubbornly refused to recognize the nature of the consumer function in the economy. Then the emphasis was: 'Sales means jobs.' Today the situation is reversed...
...third of his time on community projects (TIME, Sept. 24), expects his subordinates to follow his example. While businessmen had to be forced under protest to adopt measures such as the guaranteed annual wage and pension funds, they have voluntarily introduced profit-sharing and stock-purchase plans, launched vast human-relations programs that give the employee all manner of benefits from psychiatry to symphonies...
While some businessmen deride such activities as an empty gesture to public relations, the most eloquent proof of the conservative's genuine concern for human values is often to be found in unpublicized programs within his own company. General Electric, for example, budgets up to $40 million a year for education within the company, finds that one in eight employees takes advantage of its courses. Instead of merely firing the older employee or cutting him off with a watch, business is pouring $4 billion a year into retirement programs. With the aid of University of Chicago consultants, Bell & Howell...