Word: handbooks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years ago, his images of ectoplastic businessmen and screaming Popes, based on such then unlikely-sounding sources as pioneer Cameraman Eadweard Muybridge's serial photographs of human and animal motion, a textbook on radiology, stills from Russian Director Sergei Eisenstein's movies, and an exquisitely colored handbook on diseases of the mouth, were seen as a Guignol of existential dread. Indeed, the scariness of Bacon prevented many people from experiencing his work aesthetically: the scream on the Pope, like the smile on the Cheshire cat, remained while the rest of the picture evaporated. And yet, explains Bacon, "when...
This is not an academic discussion, but a handbook for women. As such there is no need or extensive political and economic analysis of the pros and cons of working without pay. But a little less rabid partisanship would have produced a better and more well-reasoned book...
Charles Black, professor of jurisprudence at Yale Law School and one of the nation's leading constitutional scholars, is having trouble finding a publisher for the book he cares about most. He has no problem with his outpouring of legal prose. His handbook on impeachment, published last summer, has already sold 24,000 copies and is still going strong. W.W. Norton snapped up his newest book, on capital punishment, and rushed it into print just five weeks after getting the manuscript in September. Early next year, Yale University Press will publish a dialogue between Black and his childhood friend...
...Scout Handbook of the counterculture movement was The Last Whole Earth Catalog, published in 1971, which told the dropout generation where to get the information to do its own thing-cultivate organic food, build geodesic domiciles, grow pot. The volume went through 14 printings, sold 1.2 million copies, won a prestigious National Book Award and turned Publisher Stewart Brand, 35, into an old-fashioned capitalist...
...bucked at the notion that coverage was a privilege of the well-to-do, and began issuing more small policies to low-income householders. He also organized the Ives & Myrick training school for agents, which other insurance companies quickly imitated. Ives himself wrote the firm's sales handbook The Amount to Carry-Measuring the Prospect. It became a Bible of the industry. His memos to his agents were low in sales talk and high in a thoughtful style worthy of the Concord philosophers. Example: "When Wordsworth said that he could write like Shakespeare if he had a mind...