Word: whitecollar
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...image. In the lurid cinemythology of the '30s, Capone was glorified by Paul Muni (Scarface), Edward G. Robinson (Little Caesar) and James Cagney (Public Enemy) as a snap-brim Satan. In the sober retrospect of the '503, he is reduced by Rod Steiger to a mere whitecollar, clean-desk psychopath-a sort of organization maniac...
...Merrie England. Although Lucky Jim took the Somerset Maugham Award, the grand "Old Party" of British letters loosed a choleric blast at the "whitecollar proletariat." Said old (83) Somerset Maugham: "They do not go to the university to acquire culture, but to get a job, and when they have got one. scamp it ... Their idea of a celebration is to go to a public house and drink six beers. They are scum...
...people are pleased by this unmarxist revolution-especially the revolutionaries triumphant in their suburbs-but since World War II, a whole school of literature has sprung up worrying about the situation. The "whitecollar mob" and the "lonely crowd" have become the objects of much nervous concern. William H. (for Hollingsworth) Whyte Jr., an assistant managing editor of FORTUNE, is the latest and perhaps the most thoughtful writer to be thus concerned. His "Organization Man" is the man with the rotary hoe-the suburbanite who is doing well in technological America. Whyte wonders who slanted his skull into a middlebrow conformation...
Doctrinaire, too intellectual to attract the working classes, the Socialist Party declined steadily from its 1945 peak. It became overloaded with civil servants, postmen, schoolteachers and "leather-chair" (French equivalent of whitecollar) workers, and had little strength in the factories and fields. When the Socialists joined conservative governments, disillusioned supporters deserted to the Communists. In 1951 Mollet declared a policy of nonparticipation, and kept his Socialists out of government and in the posture of general opposition for four years...
Three months ago more than 7,500 Prudential Insurance Co. "industrial" agents walked out in the first major strike of U.S. insurance agents and the biggest "whitecollar" strike in U.S. labor history. The strikers, whose work included selling and collecting premiums on industrial policies (i.e., insurance paid for in small weekly or monthly installments), complained of overwork and underpay. During the strike, they threw as many as 1,000 pickets around the company's Newark (N.J.) headquarters...