Word: knowlton
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more than just a small-town boy grown big. He is a Harvard Business School graduate who since going to Washington as a low-level official in the Eisenhower Administration has had the knack for cultivating the powerful of both parties. He left the public relations firm of Hill & Knowlton Inc. in 1981 to build a company that by 1983 was earning $11 million a year. He owns 75% of Gray & Co.'s stock, and enjoyed a salary last year...
...these reasons do not explain why, outside of a few notable exceptions, writers have consistently avoided business topics, Christopher Knowlton '78's first novel, The Real World, should put an end to most discussion. This tiresome story of a fledgling management consultant offers convincing evidence that American writers have been successfully discrete in their choice of material...
...Real World is successful as a criticism of the soulessness of the business world, but the book flounders on Knowlton's style. The stiff, third person narration employs an overbearing, occasionally patronizing tone, and suffers an annoying weakness for moralizing. Knowlton feels compelled to describe everything, thus cluttering the book with distracting details. The lengthy descriptions of Caleb's office, for example, should have been trimmed, and more attention given to the woefully rushed moments of tension between parents, lovers and bosses. But paradoxically, these laborious description also redeem the book and make it worth our attention, no matter...
...Knowlton stressed that the new Center should be careful "not to spread itself too thin. We don't want to get involved in too many issues per se, but rather focus on the process of collaboration itself," he said...
...important to put public issues on the private sector agenda and vice versa," Knowlton said, "so that both sides can make their own work more effective...