While the focus in the landscape of Old World cities was commonly government structures, churches, or the residences of rulers, th...e landscape and the skyline of American cities have boasted their hotels, department stores, office buildings, apartments, and skyscrapers. In this grandeur, Americans have expressed their Booster Pride, their hopes for visitors and new settlers, and customers, for thriving commerce and industry.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the small town each citizen had done something in his own way to build the community. The town booster had a vision of the futu...re which he tried to fulfill. The suburb dweller by contrast started with the future--with a shopping center for twice the population, with a school building already built, with churches constructed, with parks and playgrounds and swimming pools. These were as essential to building a suburb as the prematurely grand hotel had been to building a city in the wilderness. In large developments where the developer had a plan, and even in the smaller developments, there was a new kind of paternalism: not the quasi-feudal paternalism of the company town, nor the paternalism of the utopian ideologue. This new kind of paternalism was fostered by the American talent for organization, by the rising twentieth century American standard of living, and by the American genius for mass production. It was the paternalism of the market place. The suburban developer, unlike the small-town booster, seldom intended to live in the community he was building. For him community was a commodity, a product to be sold at a profit.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The theater is a baffling business, and a shockingly wasteful one when you consider that people who have proven their worth, who h...ave appeared in or been responsible for successful plays, who have given outstanding performances, can still, in the full tide of their energy, be forced, through lack of opportunity, to sit idle season after season, their enthusiasm, their morale, their very talent dwindling to slow gray death. Of finances we will not even speak; it is too sad a tale.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is ultimately in employers' best interests to have their employees' families functioning smoothly. In the long run, children wh...o misbehave because they are inadequately supervised or marital partners who disapprove of their spouse's work situation are productivity problems. Just as work affects parents and children, parents and children affect the workplace by influencing the employed parents' morale, absenteeism, and productivity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Predictions that unit cohesion could not survive honesty about sexual orientation were simply wrong. What does threaten morale are... the prolonged investigations, the questioning of friends and co-workers, the searches of barracks for magazines and letters, the witch hunts.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and ha...ppy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nobody seriously questions the principle that it is the function of mass culture to maintain public morale, and certainly nobody i...n the mass audience objects to having his morale maintained.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive factor; it is people, not things, that are decisive. The contest of s...trength is not only a contest of military and economic power, but also a contest of human power and morale. Military and economic power is necessarily wielded by people.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »