Word: jaye
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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DEATH IN LIFE: SURVIVORS OF HIROSHIMA, by Robert Jay Lifton. As he sifts the recollections of 75 persons who lived through the first atomic bombing, an American psychiatrist discerns the effects of large-scale disasters on behavior...
Such similarities are the gist of a provocative book by English Author Antony Jay called Management and Machiavelli (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc.; $4.95). Jay, a Cambridge-educated amateur historian, has an unabashed enthusiasm for Machiavelli. As a former television writer and editor for the British Broadcasting Corp. who has become an independent television consultant in London, he is fascinated by management. "The history of General Motors over the past 50 years," he says, "is far more important than the history of Switzerland or Holland." Mixing Machiavelli and management, Jay discovers some interesting and instructive corollaries between states and corporations...
...Jay sensed this concept accidentally. "I had just been reading Machiavelli's The Prince," he recalls, "on the day when a friend of mine in management began talking to me about takeovers. He complained that there is no book which explains to industrialists how to go about fitting a new acquisition into the corporate empire...
...Jay easily translated Machiavelli into modern corporatese: "Senior men in taken-over firms should either be warmly welcomed and encouraged, or sacked: because if they are sacked they are powerless, whereas if they are simply downgraded they will remain united and resentful and determined to get their own back." Admits Jay...
...words that told the story of six people who, a year earlier, had survived the biggest unnatural disaster in history. In that account, eyes ran from sockets, flesh bubbled from bone, a city disappeared in a flash. Yet the damage report was not complete, as Yale Research Psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton shows in this compassionate and important study of the malaise that still pollutes the spirits of many survivors. They are known as hibakusha (pronounced hi-bak-sha), which literally means "explosion-affected persons." To the Japanese the word incorporates the chill of such terms as zombie and leper...