Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...office that handled this particular job is a department in TIME Inc. called Central Printing. It handles an average of 3,000 printing jobs each year, which add up to a total of some 300 million pieces of printed matter. They range from special circulation and promotion letters and projects to annual reports, stationery and Christmas cards. The job of supervising this volume of internal printing calls for a good manager who also knows art, layout, type and paper...
...charge of the Central Printing Department is Amos Bethke, who heads a staff of seven. The majority of printing orders are farmed out to regular printers and letter-mailing houses. But every job that comes in seems to have its particular problem. There is, for example, a book listing 18,000 different prices for envelopes and letters alone...
Experts they are, at mugging if not at answering questions. From the moment somebody asks, "Is marriage a good idea?" the show falls gloriously apart. The artist and his wife's lover start by disagreeing about marriage in general, end by discussing their own particular situations in front of the enlisted personnel. Everything ends in a good, low brawl. Final shot: the chastened chaplain, a week later, seated primly in his empty auditorium, listening to the efforts of the May Savitt Qualthrop String Quartet...
...must admit that I find it impossible to relate The Confidential Clerk to any of the myths. Eliot claims the Greek is there, however, and perhaps an under standing of the particular legend would delineate some of the aspects of The Confidential Clerk's characters I still find confusing. The theological framework is much clearer to me, and I shall review The Confidential Clerk in its context...
...make the characters into theological robots rather than into the crisp, little chessmen of The Cocktail Party. Mush as I enjoy the intellectual exercise The Confidential Clerk imposes, I had the feeling, when it was all over that the equations didn't balance, not even when you accept the particular set of coordinates in which Eliot chooses to devote his life...