Word: inners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...morning last winter Gaye showed up with the idea for What's Going On. Beyond its $2,000,000 worth of straight sales, the album also produced three hit singles with combined sales of 4,000,000 copies-the title song, Mercy, Mercy Me (The Ecology) and Inner City Blues. Such selling power obviously means that a lot of people are willing to tag along behind Marvin Gaye. On their own, of course. Says Gaye: "I have a right to respectfully decline to lead my people anywhere...
...office, never the factory. Books and magazines similarly lack working class references. What few references exist are usually derogatory. ("Greasers" are Neanderthals and "dumb Polacks" have replaced "coons" as the butt of jokes). An uninitiated observer would think that the American people are either suburban white professionals or inner-city blacks...
...turning uglier. The inmates had dug trenches up to 200 feet long and flanked by mounds of dirt to provide protection against attack. Gates were being wired to make them electrically hot. Metal tables were upended along the catwalk leading to the "Times Square" intersection of the prison's inner connecting corridors?a route along which any invading police would certainly come. "They were going to create an inferno [by igniting gasoline] when our men came through," contended one Rockefeller aide. "We had a deteriorating situation on our hands, and we had to act before it got worse...
Antony Jay, a British management consultant and former BBC producer, thinks that the distance between the tribal councils of Kalahari bushmen and the inner circles of IBM is not all that great. In a book to be published next month, Corporation Man (Random House; $7.95), Jay argues that modern business firms are organized on the same basis as aboriginal tribes. Furthermore, the behavior of corporate executives springs not so much from reason as from animallike, prehistoric instincts. As in Management and Machiavelli, a 1968 book in which Jay compared the corporation to a nation-state, he has done little scientific...
...even what constitutes pleasure or pain, reward or punishment, when man and his environment can be limitlessly manipulated? Skinner himself believes in Judeo-Christian ethics combined with the scientific tradition. But he fails to answer how it is possible to accept those ethics without also accepting something like the "inner person" with an autonomous conscience...