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	NewsWire Q&A: CSY Lab Architect Jeff Vance
		Hewlett-Packard positioned the project as a way for the 3000 community to work on sections of MPE subsystems, albeit less popular ones, in a style based on the Open Source movement, but not enough was completed.
		In the wake of HP’s end-of-support notice for the platform in five years, we wanted Vance to brief us on the state of the SIB requests and outline the timeline of expected development from the division’s engineers.
		Vance began programming an accounting package for the system as a college student in California in 1978, went into a summer job with HP, and then joined the division even before it was known as CSY.
	www.3000newswire.com /subscribers/QAVance-01Dec.html (3192 words)

	Vance Packard
		Vance Packard (May 22, 1914 - December 12, 1996) was an American author.
		Packard's work, though well-selling, was criticised as being poorly thought out, light on the facts, high on supposition, and frivolous for the subject matter he was tackling.
		In truth, much of the emerging work of the time was frivolous by current standards, as publishers saw fit to produce works by less-than-highest level sociologists, etc. The differences between such books and current publications were indicative of the span of thought at the time.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/va/Vance_Packard.html (175 words)

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		Vance Packard burst upon the scene in 1957 with his best-selling The Hidden Persuaders, a book which is useful to contemplate, both for its revelations of the psychological manipulations used by advertisers and the rise of irony in pop culture.
		Packard's vision of America was suffused with a particular version of the American Dream: family, community, individualism, hard work, etc. He believe in what is generally called "family values" today, but without the right-wing antiabortionism, pro-gun inanity, or conservative cant.
		Vance Packard tried to help ordinary people understand the changes in society, what the marketers wanted them to do, what the corporations wanted to know about them, what revolutions in science might mean to their lives.
	www.goodbyemag.com /nov/packard.htm (742 words)

	Vance Packard Info - Bored Net - Boredom (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Vance Packard (May 22, 1914 - December 12, 1996) was an American journalist, social critic, and author.
		Packard's work, though it sold well, was criticized as poorly thought out, light on facts, high on supposition, and frivolous for his serious topics.
		One thing the critics could not argue with, however, was the success of "pop science" books, and their value in bridging a gap between the highly educated classes and the less educated ones.
	www.borednet.com /e/n/encyclopedia/v/va/vance_packard.html (535 words)

	Vance Packard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Vance Packard (May 22, 1914 – December 12, 1996) was an American journalist, social critic, and author.
		He was born in Granville Summit, Pennsylvania to parents Philip J. Packard and Mabel Case Packard.
		In his defence, it might be argued that much of the emerging work of the time was frivolous by 21st century standards, as publishers produced works by sociologists and others of less than the highest level.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vance_Packard (805 words)

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		Vance Packard was born in Granville, Pennsylvania, on May 22, 1914.
		While Packard was widely criticized by industry leaders for his analysis of big business tactics and advertising methods, he was also highly regarded in the eyes of many well-respected scholars.
		Vance Packard died on December 12, 1996 in Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts at the age of 82.
	www.pabook.libraries.psu.edu /LitMap/bios/Packard__Vance_Oakley.html (947 words)

	Horowitz, Daniel: Vance Packard & American Social Criticism (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Vance Packard's number-one bestsellers - Hidden Persuaders (1957), Status Seekers (1959), and Waste Makers (1960) - taught the generation of Americans that came of age in the late 1950s and early 1960s about the dangers posed by advertising, social climbing, and planned obsolescence.
		Packard's life illuminates the dilemmas of a freelance social critic without inherited wealth or academic affiliation: the tension between making a living and sustaining independence; the problems posed by a dramatically fluctuating royalty income; and the impact of changing relationships withaudience, publishers, intellectuals, academics, and new media such as television and the New Journalism.
		Packard's career also expands our understanding of how one era helped create the next, underscoring how the adversarial 1960s drew on the mass culture of the previous decade.
	www.forbesbookclub.com /bookpage.asp?prod_cd=I87QZ (326 words)

	Baby Name Packard - Origin and Meaning of Packard
		Packard was the name of a car in the early 20th century.
		Packard has 2 variant forms: Packer and Packert.
		Packard is a very rare male first name and a very popular surname, according to the 1990 U.S. Census.
	www.thinkbabynames.com /meaning/1/Packard (112 words)

	SALON Daily Clicks: Media Circus
		Packard was a highly successful popularizer of serious ideas raised by America's postwar prosperity and the explosion of consumerism," The New York Times sniffed.
		Still, Packard shared the same failing of virtually all critics of commercialism — the assumption that the persuaders (whether hidden or not) are supremely effective at what they do.
		In 1957, when Packard was writing, advertisers were only beginning to incorporate the insights of psychology into their work.
	www.salon.com /media/media961217.html (999 words)

	American Social Classes in the 1950s: Selections from Vance Packard's The Status Seekers
		Some, like the journalist Vance Packard, did not emphasize poverty in their criticisms, but its opposite.
		Packard also claims that in political contests, candidates will increasingly rely on image manipulation rather than clear programmatic statements.
		Students should consider the structural versus the psychological aspects of social criticism, both in Packard’s work and in events of the subsequent decade: During the 1960s, while some dissenters looked below the surface of American society and demanded structural reform (and in some cases revolution), others were content to drop out altogether.
	www.bedfordstmartins.com /usingseries/hovey/horowitz.htm (821 words)

	Subliminal Advertising - Wilson Bryan Key, Vance Packard, Hidden Persuaders, Subliminal Seduction
		For Vance Packard, the critique of subliminals was a minor part of his larger concern that industrial psychology was manipulating the public.
		Packard never used the word "subliminal" in his book, but he made passing reference to a New Jersey cinema that flashed split-second ads during regular screenings.
		Perhaps Packard and Key secretly craved the very objects they critiqued (Key, it has been claimed, once told a colleague that he wore his hair closely shaved "to make himself look like 'a giant penis.' ") Regardless of the authors' inner workings, devoting oneself to exposing wrongdoing requires a strong interest in that wrongdoing.
	www.stayfreemagazine.org /archives/22/subliminal-advertising.html (6275 words)

	Baby Name Vance - Origin and Meaning of Vance
		Similar baby name suggestions for Vance are Vince, Fonzo, Fonzie, Fonz, Fons, Faunus, Fawnus, Fonso and Fonsie.
		Search for more names similar to Vance starting with Va-, Van- or ending with -ce, -nce, -ance.
		Vance is a popular male first name and a very popular surname, according to the 1990 U.S. Census.
	www.thinkbabynames.com /meaning/1/Vance (96 words)

	BrothersJudd.com - Review of Vance Packard's A Nation of Strangers
		Packard to have been prescient in other ways.
		In Nation of Strangers, he argued that the increasing mobility of the American workforce was destined to have unforeseen and deleterious effects on society.
		In these proposals, as in most of the book, Packard demonstrates a really canny understanding of problems that other people of the time had not even yet recognized.
	www.brothersjudd.com /index.cfm/fuseaction/reviews.detail/book_id/837 (994 words)

	snopes.com: Subliminal Advertising
		An early experiment in subliminal advertising at a movie theater substantially increased sales of popcorn and Coke.
		Although Packard did not use the term "subliminal advertising," he did describe many of the new "motivational research" marketing techniques being employed to sell products in the burgeoning post-war American market.
		Advertisements that focused on consumers' hopes, fears, guilt, and sexuality were designed to persuade them to buy products they'd never realized they needed.
	www.snopes.com /business/hidden/popcorn.asp (569 words)

	Vance Packard and American Social Criticism - Horowitz, Daniel
		Vance Packard and American Social Criticism - Horowitz, Daniel
		'Vance Packard's number-one bestsellers -- Hidden Persuaders (1957), Status Seekers (1959), and Waste Makers (1960) -- taught the generation of Americans that came of age in the late 1950s and early 1960s about the dangers posed by advertising, social climbing, and planned obsolescence.
		Based in part on interviews with Packard, Daniel Horowitz's intellectual biography focuses on the period during which Packard wrote his major works of social criticism....'--from the publisher.
	www.brainiacbooks.com /si/0520L965990.html (202 words)

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		In it, Packard criticized Stevens for having a sinister strategy behind his theory of planned obsolescence.
		One of Vance Packard's criticisms of planned obsolescence was related to an ethical principle.
		However, Stevens was not taken aback by Packard's harsh denunciations of his design philosophy.
	www.137.com /modern (957 words)

	VANCE PACKARD AND AMERICAN SOCIAL CRITICISM - Daniel Horowitz
		VANCE PACKARD AND AMERICAN SOCIAL CRITICISM by Horowitz, Daniel
		ISBN 0807821411 Based in part on interviews with Packard, Daniel Horowitz's intellectual biography focuses on the period during which Packard wrote his major works of social criticism.
		"Packard's classics--Hidden Persuaders, Status Seekers, and Waste Makers--demonstrated how a writer working from personal truth and social observation could foster a public awakening as Americans put the 1950s behind them and entered the 1960s.
	www.biblio.com /books/38261354.html (537 words)

	Ad Age Advertising Century: People: Vance Packard
		A national best-seller in 1957, Packard's "The Hidden Persuaders" capitalized on a public perception that "Madison Avenue" was ready, willing and able to persuade defenseless consumers to buy unneeded goods and services.
		Packard explained that ad agencies used psychiatry, motivational research and related social sciences to create subliminal selling patterns.
		Ironically, his work contained enough distortions to diminish its value where it might have counted most -- among ad makers.
	adage.com /century/people099.html (95 words)

	Attn: Retards part II
		Up until around that time, Vance Packard was one of the people I'd read about but never read.
		But considering his critique of consumer culture was hugely popular brought its own kind of jolt.
		Packard helped popularize a critique of advertising which was quickly absorbed with ads about advertising (or what we're loosely calling anti-ads).
	www.stayfreemagazine.org /archives/15/vance.html (465 words)

	Refelctions on Automotive History by Bill Vance
		They are interesting, informative and timeless, and will make a valuable contribution to the libraries of not only automotive enthusiasts, but also those interested in history, and the automobile's place in it.
		Bill Vance is an acclaimed automotive journalist/historian who has covered the full spectrum of automotive subjects.
		Over his many years of writing and research he has developed an in-depth knowledge of the automobile's history and technology.
	www.billvanceautohistory.ca (689 words)

	UK Indymedia - Before Naomi Klein there was Vance Packard (Site not responding. Last check: )
		However, what she discusses after the fact was first given thought by another American in the mid 1950 s.
		First published in 1957, Vance Packard's HIDDEN PERSUADERS has by means of extrapolating the tendencies of the time, the power of "prediction".
		Divided into two sections, "Persuading us as consumers" and "persuading us as citizens" Packard makes a direct link between coroprate mentality and its direct encroachment into the political sphere.
	www.indymedia.org.uk /en/2000/11/832.html (342 words)

	Sun buys Hewlett and Packard \| The Register
		The Hewlett and Packard figure is part of the Silicon Valley Hitchhiker series that we've been covering for the past couple of weeks.
		The figures have been "hitchhiking" around the country with GPS units strapped to their backs so people can follow their journeys online.
		Sun will ship the Hewlett and Packard figure off to a number of locations in the coming days and plans to track H and P's journey here.
	www.theregister.co.uk /2006/08/17/sun_buys_hp (653 words)

	Vance Packard Index
		A former newspaperman, magazine writer, editor, and teacher, VANCE PACKARD is the author of a number of controversial books, chief among them THE HIDDEN PERSUADERS, THE STATUS SEEKERS, and THE WASTE MAKERS.
		In the article which follows he discusses developments in the transmission of television which may lead to a dramatic improvement in the programs offered.
		Copyright © 2006 by The Atlantic Monthly Group.
	www.theatlantic.com /doc/by/vance_packard (64 words)

	Vance Packard & American Social Criticism; Author: Horowitz, Daniel; Hardback; Book
		Vance Packard & American Social Criticism; Author: Horowitz, Daniel; Hardback; Book
		Traces the influence of Packard's early life on his works on social criticism and notes his viewpoints in the context of a writer lacking academic affiliation.
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	www.netstoreusa.com /hjbooks/080/0807821411.shtml (156 words)

	Vance County NC Tourism Department
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	www.kerrlake-nc.com /carshow.cfm (778 words)

	Packard,Vance Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
		The status seekers : an exploration of class behaviour in America.
		This volume offers an abridgment of The Status Seekers, Vance Packard's influential and popular study of social status and stratification in 1950s America.
		An introductory essay places Packard and his book in their historical context and discusses the role that social criticism played during the nation's transition from '50s complacency to '60s...
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Packard,Vance (304 words)

	Vance Packard - The Hidden Persuaders - Good Book on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
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	www.flickr.com /photos/constantskepticupdates/320998763 (87 words)

	The Beatle image
		--> Preface: The following article was written by journalist and author, Vance Packard, for the Saturday Evening Post.
		Music's Gold Bugs: The Beatles", and then provided some insight as to how the image was built by publishing Vance Packard's essay.
		There are no quotes from the Beatles themselves in this article, but I found this an enjoyable read from the pen of a journalist back in 1964.
	beatles.ncf.ca /vancep.html (1172 words)

	New York Times Best Seller Number Ones Listing
		The Hidden Persuaders by Vance Packard (McKay) - August 4, 1957
		The Status Seekers by Vance Packard (McKay) - June 14, 1959
		The Waste Makers by Vance Packard (McKay) - November 6, 1960
	www.hawes.com /no1_nf_d.htm (5431 words)

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