Word: martinisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...protagonist, Peter (Ralph Martin), has been a cook for three years. He is an immigrant, like most of his co-workers, and you could guess Germany produced him even without the accent. His seemingly innate idealism has been reduced to a stump by the kitchen which he has turned into an abstraction: he is content to push people around, with a fleeting, hysterical grin on his face, asking for dreams that he himself cannot deliver. "Games are for imagining new things, new ways to be," he pants while stacking boxes into an arch. "My group, we used to build things...
...MARTIN MAYER 217 pages. Harper...
Both Henry Fairlie and Martin Mayer engage in a savage debunking of the '60s. Fairlie especially starts with an oft-heard Bicentennial premise: the U.S., reeling from Watergate and Viet Nam, must recover its morale and equilibrium. The idea could smack of mere inspirationalism, but Fairlie and Mayer approach the thought with original and even eccentric minds...
...Martin Mayer's Today and Tomorrow in America is harder and more brisk, crackling with intelligence and a certain contempt for what he sees as the stupidities of American public policy. Ideologically, his book will probably be read by some as a callous, you-can't-make-an-omelette-without-breaking-eggs dia tribe against social planners, academics in public life and environmentalists. Among his dicta: "Adjustments that take the reward structure too far out of line with contributions produce economic decay . . . An entirely disproportionate share of medical attention goes to the chronic, hopeless ills of the aged...
...what is Dean Rosovsky's rationale for his new system? The Crimson article says "[Rosovsky] wishes to discourage attempts to 'outsmart the system.'" To outsmart the system? In other words, to make use of our initiative, our free will? It strikes us as rather fascist. Craig Taylor '79 Roger Martin...