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...increase. Business-psych programs like the Human Edge series (Sales Edge, Management Edge, Negotiation Edge and Communications Edge) have been available for more than a year, although at $250 and up they have never sold particularly well. But Human Edge recently came out with a $50 program called Mind Prober that took the concept out of the boardroom and into the boudoir. When supplied with a few dozen descriptive adjectives about an individual, Mind Prober will concoct an instant character analysis that includes a report on his or her romantic attitude. Backed by some come-hither ad copy...
What kinds of people become managers in today's well-run corporations? The latest prober of the executive psyche, Washington Psychoanalyst Michael Maccoby, identifies four types. The first is the "craftsman," a gentle holder of traditional values, an admired worker so absorbed in his own specialty -engineering, finance, sales-that he cannot sense broad corporate goals, let alone lead a complex organization. Next comes the "jungle fighter," dog eat dog all the way, destroying peers, superiors and eventually himself. The "company man" is occasionally effective but lacks daring to bring about bold changes: his is a world dominated...
Glittering Bird. The reason for Calder's unlimited scale is that he is a space prober. His mobiles stir through space like tree branches in a breeze. His stabiles (unmoving sculpture) are saurian girders that seem to slunk through the landscape, yet loom with a delicacy all their own. Yet their universality is shot through with humility. Visitors to the Guggenheim wandered beneath huge stabiles, paused to observe his The Only Only Bird (see opposite); it is a pop-like dodo made of beer and coffee cans whose title is drawn from a slogan on a can rather than...
...coffee bar in St. Peter's denouncing as "ladies' underwear" the episcopal finery that the bishops have to put on while there. Quite predictably, he stands at the outer periphery of the church's policymakers. He is not a methodical reformer, a dynamic organizer, but a prober, a prelate who says aloud what others may think in silence, who raises critical but often embarrassing questions for debate. Like Socrates, he feels that it is sufficient for a thoughtful man to be a gadfly...
Like the pre-Ship of Fools Katherine Anne Porter, Novelist Glenway Wescott is a somewhat melancholy yet tantalizing literary figure. His novels-including The Grandmothers (1927) and The Pilgrim Hawk (1940)-earned him a special reputation as a prose craftsman and subtle prober of the wheels and springs of emotion that turn the clock of character. But he has produced little fiction (only five volumes since 1924) and, though he has started some projects, has published nothing for the past 17 years. Through all that time, a faithful coterie of Wescott admirers has continued to hope not only...