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...more direct route to a thumbnail sketch of icebergs, the reader merely finds the listing "Icebergs" in the alphabetized ten-volume Micropaedia, a fact finder's treasury of 102,214 short articles, none more than 750 words long and most much shorter. Because all the information for the Micropaedia is stored in computers, it will be easier to update than material in earlier editions...
Kest said the meeting with Meyers did not affect his opinion of the IRRC because Meyers "was just a fact-finder, that...
...newspaper ad for college students placed by a chain of stationery stores and found that by 10 a.m. on Monday there were no further openings. She went to an employment agency that offered a $95-a-week switchboard job (for which she would have had to pay a $133 finder's fee), but that job never opened up. "I went to Morrisania Hospital because I heard they were hiring, but they told me there was nobody to interview me and they would contact me," she says. "I went back two weeks later, but nothing was available." Next she went...
...beginning of World War II found the company in a peculiar position. Its communications systems were supplying information to German submarines, and its American factories were assembling "Huff-Duff," the High Frequency Direction Finder used by the Allies to save their ships from German torpedoes. This is not one of Milo Minderbinder's fast-buck schemes from Catch-22. It is, in fact, a part of the corporate record of ITT, the American-based telecommunications conglomerate with worldwide interests as diversified as smoked meats and rental cars...
...means a flattening of human experience, a generality that amounts to well-meant condescension. In brief, it is sentiment. In her passion for "not evading facts, not evading what it really looks like," Diane Arbus became perhaps the least sentimental photographer who ever caught a face in the view finder. She refused to generalize. There was no family, and the unshared particularity of her subjects was recorded as it lay, dense, mediocre and impenetrable. "What I'm trying to describe," she declared, "is that it's impossible to get out of your skin into somebody else...