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Warning by Film. The need to make assembly jobs more interesting to better-educated blue-collar workers is not peculiar to the Swedish auto industry. Roughly 40% of the hourly paid workers in U.S. auto plants are under 35, and virtually all of them have completed at least twelve years of school, compared with ten years on the average for those 45 to 64. Industrial psychologists are sure that it is these young workers who have caused the U.S. auto industry's absenteeism rate to climb. At Ford, the rate rose from...
...Exit is a masterful work. Its greatest value lies in how the philosophical and the dramatic fit together; Sartre can sell his own peculiar brand of existentialism and still have a tightly written dramatic statement. The Hub Theatre is aware of the danger of philosophic overkill; they fortunately let Sartre's philosophy stand unaided. But No Exit as drama is a strong play, demanding strong acting and strong direction. With one exception, the Hub fails to provide this strength...
...still under way, the break is final. How well Jackson will succeed on his new course is uncertain. Says the Rev. William A. Jones Jr., a pastor in Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant ghetto who has been appointed to take over Jackson's Breadbasket role temporarily: "With his peculiar gifts, he may be able to develop a new instrument that will attract like-minded people. Whether he is giving up a Cadillac for a Rolls-Royce or a Chevy remains to be seen...
...conducting here--as through the entire concert--was skillful and a pleasure to watch. 'Yannatos' beat is clear and simple yet his form is animated. He has a peculiar rocking motion that in others could be annoying. The beauty of his conducting is in the pinpoint control he exercises over the orchestra, a product of confidence and experience that the student conductors we often see tend to lack...
Bernardine Dohrn would later be heard to utter, "Far out...can you dig that...killing that pig with a fork...fork power!" but that of course is somewhere else, standing only as a peculiar monument to the way in 'which any action in America becomes relevant to whomever thinks fastest and yells, "First dibsies." That was the strange thing about Manson, he seemed to fit just about everybody's purpose, to satisfy just about everybody's fantasies, and that is probably why he now has the best possible facilities in his prison cell, and why he'll probably...