edited by Ralph Nader & Mark J. Green ‧ RELEASE DATE: Jan. 1, 1972
Many years ago H. G. Wells wrote "It is not creative minds that produce revolutions, but the obstinate conservation of established authority," a sentiment that can serve as the text for this proficient if rather stereotyped critique of contemporary American corporate power. The contributors — all participants in a Nader-sponsored colloquium on big business accountability held late last year — want the corporation to become more socially responsible, not out of starry-eyed rapture with the boardroom and the fatcats who run it but because they are pragmatic welfare capitalists who seek to reform rather than revolutionize our economic subsystems. Robert Dahl leads off the proceedings with a call for more competition, more public control, less bigness; John Kenneth Galbraith plumps (once again) for transforming large private corporations into public enterprises; Senator Fred Harris proposes breaking up the monopolies; Mark Green issues a plea for a new corporate moral standard in which the companies "realize their special obligations as dominant citizens"; John J. Flynn looks toward a "corporate democracy"; Willard Mueller discusses the need for public disclosure; Andrew Hacker believes that it will take another serious depression before corporate accountability can be implemented. Not at all a muckraking collection (cf. Nader above), this lacks the intensity of recent similar works like Heilbroner's In the Name of Corporate Profit (p. 235) and the proposed remedies are either stale or too soulful for the soulless.
Pub Date: Jan. 1, 1972
ISBN: 014004566X
Page Count: 309
Publisher: Grossman
Review Posted Online: May 22, 2012
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Jan. 1, 1972
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by William Strunk & E.B. White ‧ RELEASE DATE: May 15, 1972
Stricter than, say, Bergen Evans or W3 ("disinterested" means impartial — period), Strunk is in the last analysis...
Privately published by Strunk of Cornell in 1918 and revised by his student E. B. White in 1959, that "little book" is back again with more White updatings.
Stricter than, say, Bergen Evans or W3 ("disinterested" means impartial — period), Strunk is in the last analysis (whoops — "A bankrupt expression") a unique guide (which means "without like or equal").Pub Date: May 15, 1972
ISBN: 0205632645
Page Count: 105
Publisher: Macmillan
Review Posted Online: Oct. 28, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: May 1, 1972
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by E.T.A. Hoffmann ‧ RELEASE DATE: Oct. 28, 1996
This is not the Nutcracker sweet, as passed on by Tchaikovsky and Marius Petipa. No, this is the original Hoffmann tale of 1816, in which the froth of Christmas revelry occasionally parts to let the dark underside of childhood fantasies and fears peek through. The boundaries between dream and reality fade, just as Godfather Drosselmeier, the Nutcracker's creator, is seen as alternately sinister and jolly. And Italian artist Roberto Innocenti gives an errily realistic air to Marie's dreams, in richly detailed illustrations touched by a mysterious light. A beautiful version of this classic tale, which will captivate adults and children alike. (Nutcracker; $35.00; Oct. 28, 1996; 136 pp.; 0-15-100227-4)
Pub Date: Oct. 28, 1996
ISBN: 0-15-100227-4
Page Count: 136
Publisher: Harcourt
Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Aug. 15, 1996
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