Word: filofaxes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...always been suspicious of filofax fanatics. After all, do you really need to schedule an appointment to pick up your dry cleaning? And if you can't remember whom you're having dinner with on Friday night, was the date really worth making in the first place? I like to keep things simple. But not everyone appreciates my footloose approach to life. My roommate gives me the evil eye when I forget to call the cleaning lady, and I just got slapped with a $30 fee for paying my Visa bill a few days late...
Unplanned visits, chance meetings, impromptu drinks--these are just the sort of Filofax-be-damned encounters royal life does not amply provide. On a Friday evening last month, however, at Prince Charles' St. James's Palace apartment, there occurred some rather significant spur-of-the-moment socializing. Just nine days before his 16th birthday, Prince William, en route from boarding school to the movies with friends, called his father to tell him he'd be stopping home for a change of clothes. Prince Charles asked his son if he would not mind spending a few moments with a houseguest...
Hawkins figured his main competition was paper, not computers. So he made sure that looking up the day's schedule was no more difficult than opening a Filofax: one push of a button and there it was. Details about an appointment could be called up with two taps. "The way you look at your day on the Palm is the way you look at your watch," says Dubinsky. "That's the sort of performance we felt we needed...
...students agreed with the article's warning to not come to Harvard "without a Filofax and a world view...
...often as they do in real life, which is to say virtually never. But Hijuelos succeeds in making Ives believable largely by treating his kindness with almost perfunctory matter-of-factness. In unembellished sentence after unembellished sentence, Hijuelos lists Ives' charitable acts as if they were entries in a Filofax: "One of the things he did out of the office was to produce advertising to raise money for different funds, especially for Harlem kids. Working with the local church, Ives headed clothing and food drives..." The result is a character who appears wired to do the right thing...