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In a recent issue of the New Yorker (April 12, 1976) a cartoon drawn by Whitney Darrow shows two executives sitting across from each other at a desk in a plush, modern office. They are playing cards and drinking. One of the men, his glass raised in the manner of a toast, is saying to his companion, "Until they kicked you upstairs, Hemple, it was really lonely here at the top." The cartoon has all the marks of what we have come to regard as typical New Yorker humor -sophisticated, urbane, poking fun, but not too harshly, at the holders and the aspirants of power and wealth. The reader's sense of amusement is stimulated by a combination of the character types, the physical setting, and the style of speech itself. All are instantly recognizable. With a deft pen and a few well-chosen words Darrow has managed to portray in comic relief the stereotype of the top administrator-an overweight and balding man in posh surroundings who speaks in cliches about human feelings while clutching the symbols of contrived bonhomie, cards in one hand, booze in the other. ## Lonely at the top, indeed! Who could help but chuckle? Yet the loneliness about which our cartoon character speaks is embedded in

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Author

Jackson, Philip W.

Publisher

The University of Chicago Press; University of Chicago Press (ISSN 0036-6773)

Published

1977

Language

EN

Field

Social Sciences