Word: watching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...parade themselves, adorned in black bowlers and umbrellas, with orange sashes over their shoulders. This year, over 100,000 Orangemen walked through Belfast's center and out to Edenderry Field to hear the July 12 speeches and more than a quarter of a million people lined the streets to watch the parade...
...Parks would be out of the last of his jobs, since the reason that most people tune in events like the Miss America Contest is to prove their cultural superiority to the few remaining dopes who take such matters seriously. Indeed, if there is any point at all in watching beauty contests at this late date, it is as a moral exercise: to see if one can pass beyond easy hilarity to develop compassion for those poor bimbos parading around in swimsuits and earnestly demonstrating their nonexistent talents. More and more, one finds perfectly ordinary televiewers confessing that they...
...regulate a calculus of utility and the allocation of energies. It was a view that, in its own way, was radically new. As Lewis Mumford observed, "The clock, not the steam engine, is the key machine of the modern industrial age." After consulting Gulliver on the function of his watch, the Lilliputians came to the conclusion that...
...direct responsibility for the operation of trains-engineers, conductors, trainmen who moved cars to sidings and dispatchers-had to carry a fine timepiece that would not gain or lose more than 40 seconds in two weeks, and had to be cleaned and regulated twice a year by a railroad watch inspector...
Chronological time rules the work economy, its very rhythms and motions. The prophet of modern work was Frederick W. Taylor, and the stop watch was his rod. If any social upheaval can ever be attributed to one man, the logic of efficiency as a mode of life is due to Taylor. With "scientific management," as formulated by Taylor in 1895, we pass far beyond the old, rough computations of the division of labor and more into the division of time itself...