Word: alcott
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit," wrote American educator Bronson Alcott. Whittle Communications couldn't agree more. The Knoxville-based company plans to publish a series of books that will contain a radically new profit-making device: advertising. While paperbacks have sometimes been sprinkled with ads, such come-ons have almost never appeared between hard covers...
...Young Petrella (Harper & Row; 222 pages; $15.95), a collection of magazine stories from the 1950s and '60s that display his trademark Scotland Yard detective with a deadpan precision of mood worthy of Simenon, and A Double Life (Little, Brown; 246 pages; $17.95), short gothic chillers by Louisa May Alcott...
...counter? A prospect of long nights spent writing their initials inside little circles. The cashier at the A&P? The jogger with the Westie? The Captain confesses that he is much taken with that lanky public defender on TV, the one who never smiles and who dresses like Alcott and Andrews. Late dinner conversations on civil rights and torts (Have a tort?). How about Alcott, or Andrews...
Best by default are Thomas E. G. Hale as Ronald and Jacqueline H. Sloane as Elaine May Alcott, who play God's practical jokesters on earth. Sloan must create a huge variety of characters who torment Mrs. Mann, and though she doesn't quite get them all, it's great seeing how much she does pull off. I mention Hale because, while his role is admittedly unstraining, he, at least, doesn't stumble over...
...Jospeh F Kahn '87 David S. Hilzenrath '87 James E. Schwartz '88 Nicholas S. Wurf '87 Shari Rudavsky '88 Editorial Editor: J. Andrew Mendelsohn '87 John N. Ross '87 Nicholas S. Wurf '87 Copy Editor: Michael D. Shin '88 Features Editor: Thomas J. Winslow '87 Photo Editor: Laura G. Alcott '87 Sports Editor: Jessica A. Dorman '88 Geoffrey H. Simon '88 Business Editor: Dahlia Martin...