Word: mckenna
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Women who hunger for more balance in their lives but find Sarah Ban Breathnach's recipes for achieving an "authentic self" unpalatable may find greater sustenance in Elizabeth Perle McKenna's When Work Doesn't Work Anymore. Where Ban Breathnach tries to cool women's overheated lives with a sprinkling of sachets, McKenna delves deep to identify and inspect the "indigestion in [women's] souls." What emerges as the chief gastric villain is a workplace that "makes no allowance for anything to be more important than work...
...McKenna, who has been a publisher at three large book houses, argues persuasively that while the workplace has opened up to embrace women, its hierarchical structure and defining values remain steeped in the 1950s. Women like herself have ascended to executive posts primarily by internalizing the assumptions, expectations and standards of their male bosses. Over time, these women have discovered that the ethos of the "success culture"--more money, more power, more work hours--leaves ever less space for such essentials as family, friends, autonomy, even meaningful work. The result, McKenna writes, is an uneasy sense that they are "denying...
While it's hardly new to suggest that Superwoman was never anything more than a figment of the 1980s imagination, McKenna kicks the debate into the '90s with her exploration of the central place work occupies in women's lives. Her survey of 1,200 upscale boomers finds that once a woman makes a commitment to work, regardless of whether it's driven by financial or psychological incentives, work becomes essential to her identity. Thus, when competing claims on time force a reassessment, the issue for most women isn't whether to keep working; it's how to balance work...
...stereotypically aloof, superior and uncompromising, but wherever the British went they performed better than their predecessors and successors. They brought democracy and made a better civilization. Moreover, they fostered in their subjects the cultural values of the British people: strength of character, integrity, discipline and above all incorruptibility. CHARLES MCKENNA New York City...
...what turned out to be the unwarranted dismissal of Francine Florio-Bunten for trying to capitalize on being a juror while the trial was still going on. Florio-Bunten, who was convinced of Simpson's guilt, never wrote a book, nor tried to. Petrocelli had also learned that Pat McKenna, the defense investigator who had worked in the criminal trial, was again working for Simpson. The roil about the jury ended with the dismissal of Rosemary Carraway, the lone black juror. As it turned out, her daughter worked for the L.A. district attorney's office. A nervous Petrocelli argued...