Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...father image to a five-man group of salesmen. The manager is trained more in lay psychology than in selling, and acts as a moral-rearmer when the salesman's spirit flags. "The manager's whole life, his home, his wife, his family, become the center of social activity for that sales force," says Beyer. "An army is disciplined out of fear; our men are disciplined out of loyalty to a leader, like a Cub Scout pack would be. A man cannot have the choice of whether he comes to the Saturday meeting or not. He wants...
Young Designs in Living by Barbara Plumb. 159 pages. Viking. $14.95. A fascinating social document, full of cheerful ideas about interior design. The book shows how today's "with it" people live in Europe and the U.S. They subdivide interior space into tricky levels. They love mirrors and blazing primary colors. Their art works are random-a bolt of Persian cloth, a chrome lamp, a billboard fragment, a lute. Does all this glitter mean anything more than an egotist's smile? Author Barbara Plumb, editor of the Home section of the New York Times Magazine, chats tersely about...
...Faculty subcommittee chaired by Harvey Brooks, dean of Engineering and Applied Physics, voted, 5-3, in favor of Harvard's allying itself institutionally with the Project, which uses computers at Harvard and M.I.T. for social and behavioral science research. The same recommendation was approved. 11-8, by the Committee on Research Policy...
...half-share of $7.7 million in Defense Department money for computer research, some say. would alter significantly the entire nature of the social sciences at Harvard. Dean Ford said in September that joining the Project "would involve a considerable shift in emphasis in one or several parts of the Faculty ... this is not unlike setting up a new department...
...Brooks subcommittee may have been correct in its statement "that the development of computer-based techniques and substantive research [is important for the future of the social sciences at Harvard." But. in light of the many serious issues raised by the Cambridge Project. the way the University handled the matter seems incredibly shortsighted...