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...Polloi. After a book-length orgy of beating the breast beaters, Author Fitch's one-sentence grace note at the end sounds stark and anticlimactic, albeit traditional: "The chief end of man is to glorify God and to enjoy him forever." No Christian will quibble with that. One may, however, argue heatedly over, or reject totally, the basic assumption that the pop culture-bestsellers, TV shows, advice to the lovelorn columns, cartoons, comic strips, dialogues with taxi drivers-constitutes the best method for judging the drift and destiny of a civilization. No one judges Greece and Rome that...
Some bosses prefer to handle things less rigidly, try to turn the complaints into chuckles. An executive of Monsanto Chemical Co. has put out a complete "Exec-Chart" ticking off everyone from "Top Dogs" to "Hoi Polloi," lists their "visible appurtenances" of power, from "shoeshine service" to "plant stands." Sample: "Luncheon Menu for Top Dogs: Cream cheese on whole wheat, buttermilk and indigestion tablets. Menu for Hoi Polloi: Clam chowder, frankfurter and beans, rolls and butter, raisin pie a la mode, two cups of coffee." Pacific Gas & Electric Co., like many others, sensibly gives a man what he needs...
...Proust. Wandering nostalgically over the condemned playgrounds in The Last Resorts, Cleveland (The Proper Bostonians) Amory tries to catch the flavor of their heydays. He does better as an M.C. than an M. Proust, but his gossipy barrage of light anecdotes and heavy name-dropping should delight hoi polloi and aristoi alike...
Leaving Portland last week, Mayor Riley was unabashed by his mission. Said he: "I'm going to talk to everyone, from the hoi polloi on down. . . . I've got one helluva responsibility ahead...
...Governor Generalship of Libya and then to mysterious death in his airplane; Soldiers Pietro Badoglio and Rodolfo Graziani to retirement; Loudmouthpiece Roberto Farinacci to an unknown fate in Albania. Each of these men possessed great influence over some segment of the Italian people, from royalty to hoi polloi. With the purging of Starace, Benito Mussolini had cut himself even more adrift from connection with the 43,500,000 Italian people...