CHARLES W I N I C K

the REMORA SYNDROME:

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Sick Characteristics
in Search
o f an A u t h o r

exurbanites, ugly Americans, and organiza-

tion men buffeted about by hidden per-
n recent years, the quality of American
I life has been the target of enough best-
suaders and wastemakers whose messages
are based on a Freudian ethic. Why do we
selling literature to constitute a very con-
enjoy the detailed discussions of our in-
siderable trend. Its growing popularity sug-
adequacies found in these "Social Seienee
gests that the needs of at least a portion of
Confidential" books that sell millions of
the book-buying publie are being met, over
copies?
and above the kind of continuing self-
criticism that is indigenous to a functioning
demoeraey like ours. THE REMORA
Readers of these books, granted a peek
from the house of intellect, are treated to The continued popularity of self-criticism
a view of status seekers and vulgarians, books suggests a kind of free-floating guilt
and anxiety, which can be compared to the
remora family of fishes. With an adhesive
Mr. Winlck is a N e w York City consultant who has
disk on top of its head, the remora attaches
also taught in several eastern schools, itself to the underbelly of a big fish. Ameri-

WINTER, 1963