Autoneurotic ass fixation
NEWS ANALYSIS
Where Have All the Neurotics Gone?
By BENEDICT CAREY
SOME cultural archetypes leave the stage with a flourish, or at least some foot stomping. All those pith-helmeted colonialists, absinthe-addled poets and hippie gurus founding 1970s utopias: They made some noise, if not always much sense, before being swallowed by history.
Yet one modern American type is slipping into the past without a rattle or even its familiar whimper — the neurotic.
The Anti-Walmart: The Secret Sauce of Wegmans Is People
An East Coast supermarket chain shows that a business can generously train its workforce and profit handsomely
Executives say the company is also able to invest in its employees and focus on steady, strategic growth because it is not publicly traded. They said cutting jobs or shipping them overseas was, in part, the product of having to relentlessly please the stock market.
"Some of that is that public mentality," said Stickles, who has an MBA and once planned to be a stock broker. "The first thing they think about is the quarter. The first thing is that you cut labor."
... the owners refuse to open more than three stores a year because "we cannot continue to be the best if we try to go at a faster pace." She said the family has no interest in taking the company public.
"No, absolutely not," Burris said. "It takes away your ability to focus on your people and your customers."
... The company has half the turnover of its peers. In February, Fortune magazine declared it the fourth-best company to work for in America in 2012. In 2005, it was number one.
Life Without Sex: The Third Phase of the Asexuality Movement
Now that he's raised awareness of his lifestyle, David Jay, founder of AVEN, is working to change mainstream beliefs about sex drives.
In a society obsessed with sex, it's hard if you have no sexual desire at all. Some are searching for a new form of intimacy
The White Savior Industrial Complex
If we are going to interfere in the lives of others, a little due diligence is a minimum requirement.
Teju Cole is the author of Open City, which won this year's PEN/Hemingway Award and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.
The Eleventh Edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica, online in full-page reproductions.
Star Quality [letter to the LRB for April 5, 2012]
Colin Burrow is of course correct to note that Sir Walter Ralegh, mentioned in the third verse of ‘I’m So Tired’, is ‘the only Elizabethan courtier to be immortalised in a Beatles song’. There is, however, an Elizabethan dramatist who plays a much more substantial role in the lyrics of another Beatles tune: the words of ‘Golden Slumbers’ on Abbey Road are almost verbatim those of Thomas Dekker’s ‘Cradle Song’ from 1599.
Benjamin Friedman
New York
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