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Millions of Americans also quicken to the glamour of business as described in countless TV shows, movies, novels and magazine stories that draw drama from the roar of the blast furnace or the power play in the executive suite. There is room on the bestseller list for a socio-economic study-The Organization Man, Judd Saxon, a comic strip based on business, runs in 160 newspapers. Yet, as Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. Vice President Leland Hazard complained last week: "The daily press just doesn't seem to be set up to look in depth into business problems...
First of all, said Wagner, it soon "became abundantly evident that no young American could reasonably be expected to sit through one hour staring at the same face on the same small screen. Classroom TV is supposed to 'quicken an interest.' In fact, nothing turned out to be more dampening than the flickering image of an elderly teacher, looking weary and unshaven under the television lights. Jokes fall flat, emphasis is missed, and the lack of any personal relationship proves stultifying...
...either unavailable or exorbitantly expensive in most U.S. cities. For a business whose methods have changed little since its cheap-labor heyday, the cost of moving from town to town has become prohibitive. On top of that, today's children, surfeited with TV tinsel, no longer quicken to the real-life roar of lions, the aerialist's heart-stopping plunge. "Suckers may still be born every minute," epitaphed a circusman in Manhattan last week, "but TV gets 'em first...
...into a euphoria which gives to young people a daring that they normally lack and to grand-mothers an illusion of perpeual youth. In this policed, Puritanical society, one must have an "out"; alcohol is one. And drink must not be heavy ... but sufficient to stimulate the nerves and quicken the blood for an hour, without leaving any after-taste or memory. Thus the [young] girls can let themselves be caressed by the boys, and the old ladies can either dance frantically or stand there very dignified, completely stiff because they are dead-drunk. No punishment follows this sort...
...times especially coming forth from balloon-like limbs. But in this as in other exaggerations he is striving for rhythm. The roundness of the figures, their repeated curved gestures and the arrangement of objects reinforce the swinging effect. Even the paint, or rather melted wax (encaustic) helps to quicken movement applied as it often is in windy veils of color. Berger's canvases could be likened to snow globes in the midst of a storm...