Word: authorly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Author Stephen Covey, cited in Andrew Ferguson's "Goodbye, Brave Newtworld" [ESSAY, Nov. 16], is on to us. Management consultants will suffer from the Gingrich fallout now that Newt's "thinking" has been compared with the "banalities...broken down and presented as 'steps' and 'affirmations'" in Covey's The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. For years, management mavens have been getting away with best sellers, that, like most of us passing through airport customs, have nothing to declare. Fortunately for the authors, few of their readers have ever read my 1984 article in International Management, "Sifting the Nonsense...
...Dated Jane Austen," "Hard Sell"). Yet somehow out of a situation which initially seems as gimmicky as Dennis Rodman comes dazzling observations on life. In "I Dated Jane Austen", the fraility of dating is shown in a stunning expose of the narrator's exploits with the famous 19th century author. The Ayatollah Khomeini is the subject of an image makeover in "Hard Sell...
Richard Dawkins is not usually an author you read when you want to feel good about humanity. The Oxford professor is best known for writing The Selfish Gene, a book that theorizes that people are genetically predisposed to self-serving, exploitative behavior. People, according to Dawkins, never act in terms of what is good for the group, but only in terms of what is good for themselves. In the process of natural selection, altruists are gradually selected out, while cheaters and exploiters are left to propagate the earth and pass their genes onto more cheaters and exploiters...
...decade; the story of Sherman McCoy's encounter with Reverend Bacon and Henry Lamb presaged the Tawana Brawley-Al Sharpton scam with eerie accuracy. Given the book's success, one can understand the promotional circus surrounding A Man in Full, Wolfe's newest book, which earned the dapper author a spot on NBC's "Today" and the cover of Time Magazine...
Some of these similarities stem from Wolfe's author-as-journalist style. Human nature today is not much different than it was 10 years ago; the struggle for money, power, sex and status would be a part of anything that describes human society. The books' similarities are too pervasive to be mere coincidence, despite several marked differences...