Word: book-of-the-month
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Like Obama, Gates can consume reams of information. His photographic memory is legendary. He is a voracious reader of history, spy novels and pulp fiction. He's subscribed to the Book-of-the-Month Club for 50 years. And he is careful, meticulously so. One decades-long colleague told me Gates will cancel a briefing if he hasn't done his homework. "Preparation for him is a cathartic experience," says his spokesman Morrell. He vents brutal answers to imaginary questions so he can be more diplomatic on the Hill. He's vigilant about the stagecraft of statecraft, even taking...
...played surrogate parent to his younger brother Toph. But with ironic laughter injected into the most tear-jerking circumstances, songs and imagined interviews erupting within the text, and an extended mockery out of traditional book formatting, Genius is far from the average life story. It is also packed with generational allusions and an insistent profanity, distinguishing it from most book-of-the-month fare...
...hard, and in spite of myself I still tend to seek out the academic, university-approved options as I try to learn more about religion. Even as I write this column, I have yet to attend any of the churches in Cambridge. My father’s book-of-the-month volumes continue to sit on the shelf. I am, however, almost certain I will enroll in the class on the King James Bible next year...
DIED. CLIFTON FADIMAN, 95, impassioned essayist and critic dedicated to making intellectual works accessible; on Sanibel Island, Fla. Fadiman judged Book-of-the-Month Club selections for 50 years; moderated the '30s and '40s radio show Information Please; and edited more than 20 anthologies, including his beloved The World Treasury of Children's Literature. (See Eulogy...
...feel lucky having spent 17 years in the company of CLIFTON ("Kip") FADIMAN at the Book-of-the-Month Club, learning from him how to read. Bearing witness to his reports--he wrote one on every book he read for the club--and his discussions at the monthly meeting of the judges was like taking the world's best creative writing course. He was a humane critic, seldom unkind, with few foibles. (I once did hear him say, "Faulkner makes me giggle.") The books he loved most were those that bore two Fadiman standards: lucidity and a mind at work...