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Avon Ladies and encyclopedia salespeople had already hit upon the idea of ringing the doorbell. But Tupperware wouldn't stop at the front door--their representatives charged right into the living room...
...TRIED TO OUTSMART ENCYCLOPEDIA BROWN...
Boorstin, to be sure, has written an interpretative personal guide to cultural history rather than an encyclopedia. Yet many of his appraisals, as well as his choices, seem blandly conventional. Some, in fact, are so woefully inadequate as to suggest that the author relied entirely on secondary sources rather than on firsthand knowledge. In a muddled chapter on dance, George Balanchine, who revolutionized the vocabulary of classical ballet, gets scarcely more space than two more limited choreographers, Leonide Massine and Michel Fokine. The paragraph on Mr. B. mentions none of his landmark ballets but cites instead his glitzy dances...
...them now -- that could beam up taped lectures by any professor on campus or even let students monitor courses from other schools. Built-in computer terminals, similar to ones in place at Dartmouth, could tap into the card catalogs of half the college libraries in the country, call up encyclopedia articles or scan the daily papers. A glance at the quad outside would show groups of teens in whatever uniform eventually supplants T shirts and blue jeans, but also many older students taking courses to change careers, and even retired couples returning to campus to satisfy their curiosity about everything...
...first half of the book includes an environmental reference encyclopedia with a myriad of numbers and statistics that show how humankind threatens the world. However, unlike an encyclopedia, Earth in the Balance will not bore you. Gore successfully flowers facts with engaging narratives...