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...American corporation, not out of its weakness but out of its strength, has begun to limit its vast power in conformity with "public opinion," with its managers' interpretation of "the ancient problem of 'the good life.' " This corporation with its highly imperfect corporate conscience is the great political fact of the modern world. Berle is not complacent about the state of the corporate conscience. But he knows that the corporation is not "soulless," as a past generation said it was. The corporation has tasted power; it can, therefore, be politically damned or it can be politically saved...
...fashion magazine. The credit goes largely to Edna Woolman Chase, who at 77 has spent 59 years on the magazine, most of them as Vogue's editorial boss and arbiter of good taste. Last week, with an assist from her actress-author daughter Ilka Chase (Past Imperfect), Editor Chase published her autobiography, Always in Vogue (Doubleday; 381 pp.). In it she spins a rich, half-century history of the world of high fashion that revolved around her magazine, in which one must "be always at the summit of everything that is elegant, modern, beautiful, cultured...
...despite the rather Marxian concept of perfection, containing for the imperfect artist the seeds of its own downfall, this play is not particularly startling or inflammatory. One must then ask if its general obscurity and murky symbolism are quite justified. Granting Arcadia its moments of brilliant imagery, and a really fine scene between the artist and his ex-mistress, the poetry is not, intrinsically, worth the effort of picking what is good from the shielding verbiage. Neither does the authoress, V. R. Lang, enjoy so glittering a reputation that one is compelled to find out just what she means. Another...
Bottle & Press. When the Eisenhower Administration took office, it had no foreign-trade policy-although the materials out of which one might have been fashioned had been at hand for years. The Randall Commission, appointed to study trade policy, brought forth a plan that it advertised as imperfect but politically practical-a plan which Congress would adopt. The chairman, Inland Steel Co.'s Clarence Randall, assuring himself that he could win support from key congressional members of his commission, undertook to make compromises that reduced the President's bargaining power with Congress...
...wildest radicals were the most Biblically conservative, and the mark of old fuddy-duddyism was a relaxed attitude toward dogma. Students jampack the classes of Reinhold Niebuhr to hear that man is not good and never will be, and that humans must be content to strive for conditional and imperfect ends...