Word: self-help
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...moral of the work is classically American--self-help and hard work--and the attraction in the reading is proclaimed by the publisher: "a book that can change your life. Who knows? maybe you can do it too!" Since the original compilation of these parables, one Fortune editor, William Whyte, has turned heretic with The Organization Man; but this collection shows that individualism is still buttressed by "the frank desire to get rich as fast as possible...
Back home again, Ben Barka began casting about for suitable self-help projects, soon thought of the rugged Rif mountains, which form a natural barrier between North and South Morocco and until last year marked the boundary between the French and Spanish zones of occupation. Following the classic policy of divide and rule, the two occupying powers had left the central Rif roadless and virtually impassable. One thing Morocco could do, decided Ben Barka, was to build a road through...
...will serve as an invaluable commercial and political link between Morocco's interior and its Mediterranean ports. More important in Ben Barka's eyes is the fact that it has already created 12,000 missionaries for a new Morocco, men who will serve as leaders in future self-help projects. "We are building the road," reads the motto of Ben Barka's volunteers, "and the road is building...
...Founder Frank B. Robinson's death in 1948. As for the doctrine of the ubiquitous Witnesses: "What response but horror can there be to this conversion of profound myth to lurid legend"-the bloody Armageddon which they eagerly anticipate between 1970 and 1980. The eclecticism of Unity (a self-help faith) and Baha'i (a world brotherhood offshoot of Islam) "amounts to metaphysical and theological hodgepodge. And the history of each involves bitterness and schism that matches anything in the church's story...
...nonprofit, nonpolitical Committee for Economic Development, made up of businessmen and educators, last week came out for more, not less, foreign aid, called for a long-range program of supplying capital (chiefly in loans) for sound development projects in underdeveloped free world nations that are making "honest efforts at self-help...