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...well to see it as U.N. headquarters. Shirley Hazzard calls it simply the Organization-though she worked at the U.N. for ten years. The characters represent many nations, but, above all, they represent one way of life. What they do and say provides a fictional counterpart to William Whyte's The Organization...
...survey of a Chicago suburb, William T. Whyte (The Organization Man) reported that the highly transient young-marrieds found in the nosy neighborliness of the community a substitute for the lost context of rooted families left be hind in the home town. "Outgoing" was a term of approbation, and somebody who kept to himself or put up a fence was distrusted. Says Whyte: "The group is a tyrant; so also is it a friend, and it is both at once...
...cover. Or to look at it another way, he has endless opportunities to quote from other Hollow Worlders whose subjects are more specialized. His book is, in fact, an anthology of the maxims of Russell Lynes, David Riesman, Helen Gurley Brown, Vance Packard, Betty Friedan and William H. Whyte...
...Government is counterbalanced by the Big Corporation, which has developed its own smothering bureaucracy. As W. H. Whyte sees the Organization Man, in the office he is engulfed by the team spirit, and in his suburb he is "imprisoned in brotherhood." The indictment, now seven years old, still has much validity, although Whyte admits that a tighter, more competitive economy has made for many sharper, less brotherly elbows. Besides, as automation displaces many straight clerical jobs, there is growing demand for skilled, creative people?and a growing willingness to take them as they are. There is a thriving washroom...
...FIFTEENTH CENTURY COOKRY BOKE, compiled by John L. Anderson (92 pp.; Scribner; $4.50). This book (suitable for stopping only the lightest doors) might have been written by Chaucer's mother ("Take ye whyte of Eyroun a grete hepe"). But as it takes a half-hour to translate a recipe, it is not good for much except a wry smile. Blue-green jacket...