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...Olsen's cross section contains no married women although they form a large part of most office staffs. His girls are the trapped ones, whose fantasies are too strong for Springfield, but who never discovered what they can do or even what they actually want in life...
...GIRLS IN THE OFFICE by JACK OLSEN 447 pages. Simon & Schuster...
This is a new entry in the crowded field of pop sociology - tape-recorder division. Jack Olsen has gathered the confessions of 15 women who work in a Manhattan firm he calls "the Company." The idea is a timely one since one positive result of Women's Liberation is a quickened curiosity about what kind of life lies behind labels like "secretary" or "executive assistant...
Unfortunately Olsen never seems to have decided whether he wanted to write a serious book or a slick one. So much of the book is devoted to sour sexual confidences that one is forced to the conclusion that the author's eye was really trained on the bestseller list...
Nobody Works. Farouk, indeed. Not even Charlotte Ford. That reference is an indication of how dated Olsen's girls are. None is endowed with exceptional talent, energy or beauty. What they have in common is a mystical, misplaced conviction that New York City is some kind of catalyst that will bring them undefined personal fulfillment, and that the office is the spot where the miracle will occur. Nobody works in this book; they just go to the office...