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...manufacture of goods and the handling of people. Worse, the flaws in the polished surface of the M.B.A. now appear to reflect flaws in the whole system of American business management, in its concepts, its techniques, its values and priorities. The M.B.A., then, is both a cause and a symptom of some fundamental problems afflicting the U.S. economy...
...Beatles had ceased to exist, except on records and film, ten years earlier. Hopes that the lads from Liverpool would somehow come together again fed on myths, not reality; an inability to tell one from the other was a prime symptom of Beatlemania. The Beatles themselves were not always immune. Their biographer tries to be, and largely succeeds. His detailed narrative sets forth a story that still, no matter how carefully documented, seems unbelievable...
...conversation where the name is completely irrelevant. Kurt Vonnegut does this all the time: in the middle of a discussion of, say, polo ponies his eyes will suddenly glaze over and he'll shake his head and mutter, "Erooke Shields." This behavior is--poor Kurt--the familiar early symptom of a greater malaise...
Actually, their curse has been imposed from outside, but the peasants tend to forget it since the source is gone. Theirs is a common symptom. President Bok, and others in positions of power, have it. In his open letter on issues of race, Bok refused to justify special admittance policies "as a form of compensation for injustices visited upon racial groups especially during earlier periods in our history." Instead, Bok prefers "to rely on different, more forward-looking reasons to explain our policies...
Treatment for the flu is by symptom and involves aspirin, fluids and bed rest...