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...customary chuckle at suburbia. White space set off John Updike's latest four-line poem, "Upon Shaving Off One's Beard." But leading off last week's "Talk of the Town" section, with Eustace Tilley presiding at the top of the page as usual, was the sternest editorial The New Yorker has ever...
...issue here is not, as you state, who wears the flag. It is how it is worn. Uncle Sam, even with his sternest mien, wears it with dignity...
...Sternest Test. Much more intelligent-and effective-methods could be used. Menninger's Klemme believes that many early flameouts could be prevented by competent psychological counseling, which few companies offer. Older executives could be reinvigorated by sabbaticals or company-paid refresher courses in subjects that now frighten them (example: computer technology). They could be switched from jobs in which they are getting stale to different but important assignments. A shift need not be downgrading; on the average, a man in middle management today stays in his job only 18 months before moving...
...last resort, the most humane method may be simply to fire the man, with an honest explanation of the reason why. "Being fired," says Los Angeles Management Consultant Thomas J. Johnston, "is another part of the executive job"-and the ability to bounce back from dismissal is perhaps the sternest test of executive fiber...
...Crimson travels to Brown tomorrow for its sternest test of the season...