Word: sinclairism
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...SAMM SINCLAIR BAKER Mamaroneck...
Brecht had read a German novel about Chicago and Upton Sinclair's The Jungle just before he started to write In the Jungle of Cities. A jungle is an apt, if overused, metaphor for the most grotesque, competitive aspects of a city--John D. Rockefeller, invoking Darwin to describe his goals for the capitalist economy, suggested how apt the comparison can be--and Brecht populates his jungle with Baboon and another henchman cleverly named Worm to emphasize the point. But otherwise he ignores the real psychology of city life in order to concentrate on the petty idiosyncracies of his characters...
...neighbors have faced it alone, and I'm one Canadian who is damned tired of hearing them kicked around," growled Canadian Gadfly Gordon Sinclair, 73, a Toronto TV and radio personality who broadcast those sentiments over Canadian radio last June in an editorial entitled "Americans." The response was so enthusiastic from U.S. listeners who were tuned in that Sinclair made a record of the editorial, with the strains of the Battle Hymn of the Republic in the background. Another Canadian, a news director named Byron MacGregor, 25, was so stirred by Sinclair's encomium that he too made...
...sampler of Sinclair's text, which provides the lyrics, so to speak, of the rendition: "I can name you 5,000 times when the Americans raced to help other people in trouble. Can you name me even one time when someone else raced to the Americans in trouble?" Americans are "the most generous and probably least appreciated people on all the earth." As for Watergate: "You talk about scandals, and the Americans put theirs right in the store window for everyone to look at ... They will come out of this thing with their flag high. And when they...
...company was just too big, and I couldn't do what I wanted." Satchell, the second nonfamily president that Schlitz has ever had, also said: "When things don't go the way I want, I go." Over the years, he has gone from job to job-at Sinclair Oil, at Schlitz (twice) and at a construction-equipment business that he started. Next month Satchell will leave the Harvard Business School, where he has been an instructor for one semester, in order to plunge back into beer. He has been named chairman, president and chief executive of Theodore Hamm...