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Frederick Winslow Taylor's Lasting Effect on the Material World

Author Robert Kanigel discusses his new biography, "The One Best Way: Frederick Winslow Taylor and the Enigma of Efficiency." (Viking) Taylor was a nineteenth century pioneer of business management. He developed Taylor's Scientific Management, a system which would encourage higher efficiency by creating more stressful work which was rewarded with higher wages.

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Fresh Air with Terry Gross, June 24, 1997: Interview with George Carlin; Review of Robbie Fulks's album "Country Love Songs" and Joy Lynn White's album "The Lucky Few"; Interview with Robert Kanigel;…
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Comedian George Carlin at 60

Carlin has written his first book called "Brain Droppings" (Hyperion Books). It's a collection of original humor pieces. He has been working in comedy for forty of his sixty years.

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Two Albums from Country's Underground

Rock critic Ken Tucker says he believes that the most popular country music is the blandest, while an underground movement of "alterna-country" performers is more passionate and raw. He'll review two such albums: Robbie Fulks's "Country Love Songs" and Joy Lynn White's "The Lucky Few."

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A New Film About Two of Ballet's Greatest Figures

Classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz reviews "Elusive Muse," the Academy Award-nominated documentary on ballet dancer Suzanne Farrell, who married choreographer George Balanchine. The documentary will be shown in an edited-for-TV version as a part of the PBS series "Dance in America" on June 25.

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A Vermont's Ice Cream Company's Attempt to Live Up to It's 1960s Values

Fred "Chico" Lager, former CEO of the Ben & Jerry's ice cream company. He joined the company in 1982, and together with Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, built the company from a small ice cream parlor to a $100 million publicly held company. Lager just wrote a book, "Ben & Jerry's: The Inside Scoop" about his experiences building a successful business while upholding the founders' original philosophy of business as a catalyst for social change.

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A Relationship Model of Leadership.

Business executive Max DePree. DePree turned his company, a once obscure office furniture manufacturer, into the "nation's most admired corporation" (according to Fortune magazine). DePree has just published his thoughts on enlightened management in a new book called, "Leadership Is An Art." Whereas most management books these days push an Attila the Hun approach, DePree's is closer to Saint Francis of Assisi.

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Daughter of Warhol star looks back on a bohemian childhood in the Chelsea Hotel

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