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...case of the Screw ad, many Crimson staff members felt its content inherently offensive; others did not want to contribute specifically to the magazine's legitimacy and generally to the cause of pornography; still others invoked our supposed obligation to run it. In addition, several editors felt that since The Crimson lacks a focused policy, it was unfair or inconsistent to vote to pull the Screw ad by a strictly ad hoc decision...
...book, being about work, is, by its very nature, about violence-to the spirit as well as to the body." The historical horrors of industrialization (child labor, Dickensian squalor, the dark satanic mills) translate into the 20th century's robotic busywork on the line, tightening the same damned screw on the Camaro's firewall assembly, going nuts to the banging, jangling Chaplinesque whirr of modern materialism in labor, bringing forth issue, disgorging itself upon the market...
...Buckwald, who noted that. "It is no accident that Knoll invited a humorist to discuss the topic of creative leadership." said. "The organization responsible for all our troubles in the Middle East is the Harvard Business School--if they hadn't taught the sons of Arah sheiks to-screw us, oil would be $3 a harrel...
...Nader's cause, by nature, is not one of narrow scope. His professed enemy is Corporate America. His activities, therefore, defy focus. He attacks auto companies, oil companies, and drug companies on the same premise, as though they constituted a single giant conglomerate whose single motivation was to screw Joe and Jane Consumer. Ever since the 1966 publication of Unsafe at Any Speed. Nader's virulent attack on the automotive industry in general and General Motors in particular, he has battled big business--all big business--with unparalleled energy...
...almost picture my platoon," says one former lieutenant, "how tall they were, where they were from, what they did-I mean, who cried and who didn't cry." An ex-grunt remembers a godlike feeling: "I could take a life, I could screw a woman, I can beat somebody up and get away with it." Another returns home to join a stickup gang: "It wasn't the money with me. I was doing things for a handshake. I wanted the adrenaline pump...