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Show F, The Salt Lalce Tribune, Sunday, June 17, 1973 Original idea brilliantly done Exclusive excerpts. U.S. heritage of violence is deep and long Headhunters stalk corporate halls of American and Badmen: A Narrative Encyclopedia of American Criminals From The To The Pilgrims Present, by Jay Robert Nash; Evans Press, $16.95. Bloodleiters This is an original idea that Is brilliantly executed, and just now, when Watergate occupies the minds of so many Americans, it may be consoling to remember our deep and long heritage of violence and crime right from the beginning. It is no secret that the Pilgrims, enduring ordeais of body and mind in order to freedom," insisted possess on their own kind of freedom, and enthusiastically persecuted any deviants, heretics or life By Allan Cox From Confessions of a Corporate Headhunter, by Allan Cox; Simon & Schuster, Inc., $6.95. Reprinted by permission from the publisher. The executive headhunter views American corporate life from a privileged position lying somewhere between a fiduciary and a card sharp. In his most austere role he is authorized to analyze the most serious problems of American business life and to find the men most capable of remedying them. In his most Machiavellian role he is a mediator between executives who dont understand their problems and job candidates vho dont care what the job is as long as there is a quick buck to be made. Streak of Irony Without a strong streak of Irony, the headhunter is a dullard unprepared to distinguish between those who deserve to be handled like the fools or the mediocrities they are and those who deserve his most expert judgment and most candid emotions. What sort of men is he looking for today? An example of one new kind of corporate executive I think we headhunters increasingly will be asked to uncover is a sort of humanistic ombudsman. For lack of a completely accurate title, he could be called of corporate responsibility. It could be argued, of course, that this job should be absorbed in the responsibilities of the president. But in most cases the president cannot attend properly to such duties. Therefore it is essential that the of corporate responsibility report directly to the president. Because to do his job, he must have the top mans support. Humanistic Critic As the voice of conscience of the company, he serves as an humanistic critic in command of corporate but often unoperating information. Unlike informed outside critics, he will be knowledgeable at first hand, without such intermediaries as irresponsible third s flacks. corporation parties or of corporate reIt is crucial that the sponsibility not be conceived as a glorified director of public and community relations. Nor can he be a cocktail-partliberal who flippantly derides corporate ways, prattling in a fog, naive about the demands of corporate machinery and means of decision making. He must believe in the profit motive, and that corporations are the major engines providing citizens with goods and services and the vehicles for greater human potentialities. He must have a sense of indignation that will be aroused when he sees the corporation abdicating or that role, and must believe that in intelligent reform the system returns to its proper and efficient funcg flap-happ- y public-relation- Settled by Criminals But, as Jay Robert Nash illustrates, they had their own legitimate criminals and murderers, tco, by instinct and training rather than principle. Tom Tryon has written another American gothic novel, Harvest Home, to match his The Other. as Tryon; Inc.; 401 pp., $7.95. It begins in a drowsy sunlit tranquillity. The time is now, but the secret of the perfect New England village of Cornwall Coombe is older than history . . . An early American house, an unspoiled farming village; neighbors who still incredibly, live by the country ways of their forebearers wonderful people like the old Widow Fortune with her satchel full of herbs, her healing fingers, her pungent talk . . . vintage characters like the garrulous peddler. Jack Stump, and the strange prophetic child, Missy. And right next door, if one more sophisticated companionship, the cultivated blind man who knows books, art, the great world. wants Pleasingly, convincingly, inexorably, the author lures us into a countryside that is the landscape of our nostalgic fantasies, takes us into the life of a man who whom we affecNed Contionately identify stantines dream of an idyllic life away from the city is our own . . . and lets us watch that dream come true. Yet slowly, as if our own deepest wisdom were warning us to beware of wishes granted, we begin to be afraid. Page by hypnotic page, Harvest Home will more than fulfill the expectations of readers who were held spellbound by Tryons first book. Harvest Home" is However, larger, more richly wrought, and even more profoundly chilling than The Other Tania Karol. Suspense mostly curiosity y g tion. He, from inside, should outdo the demands of HEW, EFA, EEOC, FEPC, and beat them at their own game. Minority Workers He should make sure the company is hiring enough workers; he should set up a counseling and referral service for employes having problems with alcoholism, with children on drugs, or otherwise hopelessly in trouble. He should see that all employes have access to adequate medical care, and look to see what minority businesses can be backed. He must take an adamant and knowledgeable stand against the expansion of ecologically damaging processes, and make suggestions aimed at phasing out such operations and substituting other profitable but sane ones. He should be concerned with job enrichment, communications in both directions between labor and decision makers, and be more innovative in defending the interests of the companys workers than the union. He should encourage new life styles in his company, or at least not allow the stifling of such at the hands of the brown-sho- e traditional rep-tigroup. And it is absolutely of directors. on the he serve board that necessary Human Resources This is all terribly idealistic, I know. But I also know that its advent in one form or another is inevitable. Conditions require it. More and more companies will be seeking men who can breathe life into the concept. In traditional economic thinking, it is the availability of the physical resource that creates the demand for the human resource. In America, all that is changing, and, in fact, has already drastically changed. Through the instruments of idespread higher education and a populace freed by the blessings of economic abundance, we have a highly skilled work force which w more and more refuses to work at tasks it finds demeaning. More people demand jobs commensurate with their notion of what industry should be doing for America and not to it. In ever increasing numbers, youth and enlightened managers of traditional corporations are creating a talent pool which has become its own natural resource. college-educate- The availability of human talent, just as the availabilcoal or iron, will create industries which can make of ity use of its potential. Instead of starting with the physical resource, however, industry will start with the human resource. I believe that the level of talent and social respons-bili-tamong corporate executives will soar in the next decade. Corporations need good men and good men wont work for corporations who offend their sense of whats right. It is in this cyclical reinforcing of talent and corporate responsibility that the excitement of the near future lies for us headhunters. The corporate headhunter will have to learn well where his new quarry can be bagged. If he doesnt, he will go the way of rolltop desks and green eyeshades. you art interested fn Richardson's tle else. What This is not r.ew; indeed it was a commonplace of 18th Century fiction. Neither Sterne nor Fielding ever quibbled to halt his actors in to deliver a sermon on the evils of lechery, or whatever; and mid-flig- new here cross-legge- d idely Read Not that Norwood is a bad essayist. He is widely and variously read, has considered his subject well and is oc- W By Peggy Constantine Writer Chicago Some experts and laymen swear by psychiatrist Thomas Szasz theories. Others swear at them. His opposition to inof voluntary commitment patients to mental hospitals is fashis most controversial, cinating and perhaps constructive theory. He likens such commitment to prison . and s slavery. Szasz is professor of psychi- atry at state university of the Upstate Medical Syracuse. He is cofounder of the American Association for the Abolition of Involuntary Mental Hospitalization. And he is the author of some 200 articles and eight books. 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He has found magnificent support from such writers as Daniel Defoe, American physician Benjamin Rush, Anton Chekhov, Jack London, a writer for the National Mental Health Foundation, Sylvia Plath and the wry humorist stores in 64 communities ot the United States 6 7 I ry thoroughly in The Manufacture of Madness (Delta, York Times Service analysis is based on reoorts from more than 125 book DESIGN PAINTING OUTHS AND ADULTS BEING SCHEDULED FOR Re- BEST SELLERS over-nig- CLASSES Irish publican Army, is sickened by the killing and disillusioned by his IRA cohorts. He flees south, pursued by gunmen who regard him as a traitor. Joan Hanauer, UPI. ACADEMY of FINE ART ADVANCED INSTRUCTION To those who view the in and killings bombings Northern Ireland with utter bemusement, this novel serves as an explanatory tract. The story is weakened by the vacuity of some of the terrorists who seem to exist on the dark side of humanity. Como It seems curious, incidentally, that there are no American criminals listed under A. But starting with B, and still dwelling on the western frontier, there are such people as AND by Evans Press; The hero, a young idealist mous Bonnie in the 1930s. No A Listing En- r, on the glories of the The conquest of the West in BASIC crime; Nashs Narrative cyclopedia seems to confirm Maxwell that prophecy. Geisman, Chicago Irish terrorism Srilnmp the mid- - and later 19th Century witnessed an early wave Glance along the Bs and there you are, facing the entry of Barrow, Clyde, murderer and robber, and the fa- of American business and politics by organized take-ove- r Story illuminates ress. bloodletters. If the winning of the frontier was a great achievement of American democracy, it also marked a new peak of American violence. Jack London wrote a short story which predicted the $6.95. dia pf American Criminals is filled with pungent details of this kind, and while the cumulative effect can sometimes be depressing, it is, in its own way, an invaluable social history of our democratic prog- are hundreds of obscure or hitherto western neglected reader. Whore-Mothe- Invaluable History All of the famous names are included in detail, and there so calculated and organized, businesslike and efficient, so vile, cruel and commonplace, as to terrify and depress the The Shaun Herron; 23.1691. of of American violence, course, and about half of this chronicle is devoted to the of the badmen celebrated frontier. 1900s'. This group dominates the last part of Nashs chronicle and here the violence is fljc In accord with the suspersti-tioof the time, the dead mans corpse was brought to the trial and Lutherland was invited to touch it. The body did not bleed, but Lutherland was sentenced to die anyway, and he was executed on Feb. 1674 Questioned author attacks involuntary commitment minor frame repairs wood touched up deck and back springs retied webbing replaced springs secured to webbing fabric pattern matched zippered cushions corded edges reodmq the comoMe book, inquiry ot your hbrory or local bookstores The book may also be obtomed by moil through in s newspaper. hend your check or money uror lo Npoper Kook Service, The Lew Tribune, P 0 Bo 11746, CIwcoqo, tit Wbl Importon? Add OS cents to to cover the erst of oostooe ond honditng the prrre ot eoeh volume o rde-e- d Send check or money order only, not cosh casionally quite eloquent about it. Nevertheless I found myself, increasingly, skimming through the essays to get back to the story, a failing that 1 cheerfully admit lies more in me than in Norwood's book. The format of the book is a bit unusual, too: it is not rectangular but square, measuring only 6 ty inches on a side, bound in and handsomely white cloth. Norwood has also made it easy for readers like me, putting boxes around all the stuff you might like to by David L. Beck. skip. Noles on paperbacks a "new" sofa or chair (inide and out) starts with a phone call to ZCMI E the five minutes of action, and for the rest of the period the proon fessor. sitting his desk, explains what we have just seen. more than reupholstery SHOP-AT-HOM- is lit- extent to which Norwood has carried the idea. We get about In a way the story is as much hers as his. We see her progress through a series of fights, from terrified victim to would-b- e but ineffectual participant to genuine combatant. Dialogue Terrible If that were all, though, Knopf never would have brought out the book, for all that Norwood has a gift for certain kinds of describing moods and actions. (His dialogue is terrible.) What make; the book of interest is its form: it is a novel in the form of Illustrated Lecture, the action being constantly interrupted for an essay on what has just happened, even though that may be no more than the Judoka's awakening with the dawn on his lonely beach. is novels were d Level of Talent I Way of judo is mostly talk The Judoka, by W. D. Norwood Jr.; Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 222 pp., $5.95. "The Judoka" is a didactic novel whose purpose is to explain the Way of Judo. The story, such as it is, is fairly simple: the Judoka, who follows the Way, lives alone on the beach; he rescues a young woman from a gang of ruffians, and becomes her teacher, partner, lover. Most of the suspense of the novel derives it is no from our curiousity more than that as to w hen he w ill decide the time is ripe for them to become lovers in the physical sense. In the Middle States, there was the example of Thomas Lutherland, a convicted felon who was sent as a bound servant from England to New Jersey in the ate 17th Century and apparently murdered a boat trader named John Clark. Curly Bill Brocius, Cattle rusgunfighter in the 1870s and 1880s; Eugene Bunch, trainrobber; the Burrows gang, also trainrobbers; Butch Cassidy (Robert LeRoy and bankrobber Parker), trainrobber; and the Dalton brothers. tler and Nashs Narrative Encyclope- Thomas Tryons Harvest Home more chilling than The Other by ThomAlfred A. Knopf, against them, amounting to genocide, was hardly counted as such in the Colonial period and the conquest of the West. The southern colonies were, New England villages secret Harvest Home, of course, settled by English criminals, with a New World over aristocracy presiding them and the black slaves. The Indians had to be exterminated in both cases and TJ, 29 26 61 6 15 29 3 12 4 |
