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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Percussive Sublimation, the pseudo-promotion commonly known as kicking a man upstairs. Because it appears to be yet another promotion for merit, percussive sublimation has the added benefit of justifying the executive who promoted the man to his level of incompetence in the first place. Both this principle and the lateral arabesque point up an inadequacy in C. Northcote Parkinson's well-known law. Work not only expands to fit the time allotted but, says Author Peter, "it can expand far beyond that...
...incompetence." Peter says that "for a clerical worker, leaving one's desk drawers open at the end of the working day will, in some hierarchies, have the desired effect." Other workers may have to shun the official coffee break or park in the boss's parking place occasionally. For women, "overly strong perfume works well in many cases." Should instant promotion threaten, more extreme action can be taken. Creating the impression of a sordid personal life is an excellent ploy. Arrange for a friend to telephone at the office, suggests Peter, and then within earshot of several...
...felt that this kid was hurting, so I took her across the street for a Coke. 'When you go home,' I said, 'read your little Bible and the Man Upstairs will help you. He'll take care of you and find a place for you. Your sister will come back to being your sister just as soon as she settles down after all this adulation...
...early 1967, life was finally beginning to fall into place for Yun. After eleven difficult years of studying and composing in Europe, he was now hearing his works performed and praised; commissions were starting to come in. That June however, Yun and his wife vanished from their home in West Berlin. They turned up next as prisoners facing a treason trial in their native South Korea. They had been abducted by agents of the South Korean Central Intelligence Agency, who at the time were rounding up South Korean intellectuals and students by the dozen in Europe as alleged spies...
...incident took place last month after Patrick Eady, 32, a social-studies teacher at Lamphere, invited two college-age youths who are mem bers of a local left-wing group called the White Panthers to address his students. Their talk was freely sprinkled with the provocative verb (or noun, or adjective, depending on how it is used...