Word: org
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nightingale. Poetry obliged to make "civil sense" will sometimes make strange noises. In one passage, Yevtushenko remembers, "The ascetic-faced PartOrg said to me . . ." But how can a poet deal with a "PartOrg" (Party Organizer) in any language? The poet himself, alas, must become part poet and part org...
ABSENCE OF A CELLO erupts with steady laughter as an academic scientist tangles with an org man from corporation land...
...questioning minds at Baldwin-Nelson, only "the questioning mind must ask the same questions we ask." He describes the familial intimacy of corporate life, complete with a tidy housing development ("Some of the houses are colonial, some Tudor, but the best ones are both"). After further visits by the org man, Pilgrim decides to end the demeaning charade, only to find that the interviewer has seen through the conformity act all along, and has a few cellos of his own hidden away...
...Succeed in Business Without Really Trying slyly paints a mustache on the corporate image. Robert Morse powers this musical with his ebullient portrayal of an Org Man rocketing...
...Org Man has little worry about labor (safety devices are at a cynical minimum in Soviet factories) and none about sales: the consumer is a captive of universal shortage. Also, he must learn the art of inconspicuous consumption. A house might cause the sort of talk -or even worse, an investigation-that would be provoked in Larchmont if a junior executive invested a windfall in a Rolls-Royce. Not long ago, Sometskaya Rossia launched a campaign against luxury-loving dachniks (TIME...