Word: inventer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What happens to the rest of the crop has stirred David Segal, a New York editor who spends much of his time on first novelists, to suggest that publishers should invent a new word. "In the case of first novels," Segal says, "what happens shouldn't be called publishing. 'Privishing' would be a better way to put it." Some books are sent to reviewers without even the vital publication-date information or a glossy photograph of the author, which definitely increases the chance of a review in smaller papers. Jacket copy can be cretinous. The blurbs from...
...left with the freedom to invent ourselves, because there is little left in this society worth imitating. But by rejecting the pre-programmed lives that the kindergarten-through-college channeling system provides, we also have the necessity of creating our own lives. The ones that have been planned for us, have already been lived, and there is no sense for us to follow their futile path, carrying our cog's worth of American culture to the scrap heap. In exchange for having to live through some of the greatest horrors the world has ever seen, we are left...
Jones was inspired to invent his tester by highway statistics, which show that half of the drivers involved in fatal accidents have alcohol in their blood. But the device−which is designed to screen drunks by testing judgment, visual acuity, short-term memory and coordinated motor response−will also weed out drug users and those who are mentally or physically deficient. To satisfy the demanding gadget, a driver must be able to read the relatively small lighted numbers, memorize them, recall them, and punch them into the keyboard in a coordinated response within a few seconds...
Whether it's in making a film or in designing a chair, Eames' first concern is with the idea or the function rather than the style, "I use film to get across an idea, not to invent a style," he said. "Style's important in getting across a point; through interest in the subject, one invents style, not through interest in style alone...
...souls. Good and evil. Playwright Peter Wiess wisely refuses to sort out clear alternatives, or declare a final winner. The script gives only vague clues as to whether Weiss feels kin to Marit's revolutionary idealism ("against Nature's silence. I use action. In the vast indifference. I invent a meaning") or to Sade's philosophically gloomy individualism...