Word: list
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...except in the area of Manhattan bounded by the lounge of the Algonquin and the dining room of the Four Seasons." Then came Evan Connell's Son of the Morning Star, a brilliant account of General George Custer and the Battle of Little Bighorn. It climbed the best-seller list and remained there for six months. Not for the first time, the industry was forced to admit that some of the nation's better publishing houses are located a world away from New York...
Kaufmann's list reaches as far back as the 19th century, with Martin Gardner's meticulously Annotated Snark, containing the text and original illustrations by Lewis Carroll -- and as far forward as The New Book of California Tomorrow, analyzing environmental issues that affect the company's home state. Although technology accounts for most of the firm's more than $1 million sales, its environmental and urban planning books are in many libraries. In addition, Kaufmann, like his West Coast colleagues, indulges some personal whims. Gardner's first novel, The Flight of Peter Fromm, written when the author...
Therein lies the difference between coasts. As Kaufmann observes, "New York publishers bring out a list twice a year, promote the hell out of the books that appear on it, run with those that are successful and remainder everything else." And along the Pacific? "Out here we put out our lists and stick with them. We don't like to see anything go out of print." Like a practiced surveyor, he knows exactly where to draw the line: "What we and Black Sparrow and North Point offer has perhaps less to do with geography than philosophy. Ten years...
From such public documents the Kremlin technocrats draw up shopping lists for the KGB and GRU, the chief intelligence directorate of the Soviet military. Last year, for instance, German officials uncovered a secret guide of high- tech items requested by the Kremlin. It was the size of a telephone book. KGB agents, like salesmen with a quota, were required to produce at least four items a year from the list...
...left unattended when doctors and nurses were rounded up by the commandos. Asked one union member: ! "If this is the democracy that we workers voted for, why are they treating us this way?" Far from ending the strike, the assault led the workers to add new demands to their list of grievances...