“Then I ask Bill for more money, a scene that is embarrassing for both of us,” my father wrote in his journal. “Like many men of fifty I am obliged to ask for a raise and like many men of fifty I am confronted with a blameless, monolithic and capricious organization, hobbled it seems by its own prosperity. The organizations of men, like men themselves, seem subject to deafness, near-sightedness, lameness and involuntary cruelty. We seem tragically unable to help one another; to understand one another. I am accused of improvidence and make several long speeches about how I am harassed by
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