Word: humanics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...better it." With that challenging epigraph borrowed from James M. (Peter Pan) Barrie, a Philadelphia artist named John Maass has written a book (The Gingerbread Age; Rinehart; $7.95) defending-of all things -American Victorian architecture. "This was no mean age," says Author Maass. "In every field of human endeavor, the mid-19th century was a time of frenetic activity and massive achievement. Is it true that the generation which constructed the transatlantic cable and the transcontinental railroad was unable to build a decent house? The truth is that an enormously creative and progressive era produced an enormously creative and progressive...
...permanent position. By 1946 he had worked his way up through sales analysis and research to vice president of employee relations. Soon he had the reputation of being on first-name terms with more Goodrich employees than any other company official, became an expert on intracompany and community human relations, was made an executive vice president and heir-apparent last year (TIME, July...
...properly cuts a figure of great physical and moral stature. A rich, sonorous voice is complemented by an extraordinarily expressive face as, going from calm imperiousness through tormenting doubts and jealousy to become a tragically pitiful uxoricide, the Devil's agent Iago gradually wreaks the havoc of his human lord and the heavenly Desdemona (see cuts on page...
...along the radio dial is bringing listeners in growing numbers to little (5,000 watts) WPAT in Paterson, N.J., and making it one of the most popular stations in the New York metropolitan area. The station's simple yet radical idea: spare the listener the sound of the human voice, except at decent intervals, i.e., no oftener than every 15 minutes through the day and every half-hour in the evening. In between. WPAT. plays carefully chosen, well-groomed music, mostly the massed strings and muted brass of the Mantovani-Kostelanetz style, nothing more popular than show tunes...
...himself. Author Swiggett understands the paternalistic embrace in which the large, modern corporation holds its employees-but he vastly exaggerates it. His notion that the corporation makes or unmakes the man is on a par with all the determinist devil theories of history which hold that every evil of human life flows from the capitalistic "system," or from the machine, or from sunspots...