Word: almanack
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...brave new world of self-management was evident at the new Wheel cooperative at the Lenin site. The slogans hanging from the rafters read like proverbs from Poor Richard's Almanack: HOW YOU LOOK SHOWS HOW YOU LOVE YOUR WORK and WHAT YOU SAVE TODAY WILL BE OF USE TOMORROW. No one seemed to need the prompting. Workers actually tended to their machines, instead of congregating in the aisles or staring off into space. Output had tripled, pilfering had plummeted, and alcohol abuse had declined so much that the janitor no longer found enough empty bottles to make a twice...
...brings up debate on what art is: realism vs. abstraction. He is a beautiful draftsman, a brilliant watercolorist, a very fine painter. In his field, Wyeth is an outstanding figure." Many critics in the Manhattan art scene, however, find him stubbornly irrelevant. "Wyeth's philosophy is Poor Richard's Almanack," sniffs Henry Geldzahler, former curator of 20th century art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. "His skies have no vapor trails, his people wear no wristwatches. He is the Williamsburg of American painting -- charming, especially when seen from a helicopter...
...example of a good literary con can be found in Poor Richard's Almanack. Benjamin Franklin, in a friendly rivalry with Titan Leeds, his chief competitor in the almanack business, foretold Leeds' death year after year until the prediction came true. Martin Mangold Hyattsville...