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...slim volume is yet another clone of a reigning champion in the impulse book market, The Official Preppy Handbook, which appeared three years ago and has more than 1.3 million copies in print. The new manual is aimed at an affluent, surefire market: the upscale young singles and dual-career couples gathered in or near big cities. Long the darlings of the advertising world and the media, these fast-trackers are now united under a sassy name and invited to smile along at their own trendiness...
...transmission that changes from automatic to manual at the flip of a switch...
...whose irreverence and shocking explicitness challenge the pieties that protect hidden feelings. "Ill tell you your calling," screams Zuckerman at Critic Appel, "President of the Rabbinical Society for the Suppression of Laughter in the Interest of Loftier Values! Minister of the Official Style for Jewish Books Other than the Manual for Circumcision...
...book, which analyzes the successful management styles of such pacesetting companies as IBM, Procter & Gamble and McDonald's, has become a how-to manual for executives eager to put their firms on the fast track. It is Topic A in seminars, skull sessions and water-cooler chitchat. Excellence themes have suddenly turned up in the advertising campaigns of businesses as diverse as the U.S. Postal Service and Bloomingdale's, the chic department-store chain. On the lecture circuit, Peters and Waterman each command up to $15,000 an appearance...
...from the University of Michigan at the end of our last interesting decade-have come to the funeral of a friend who has slashed his wrists. Alex was a charismatic prodigy of science and friendship and progressive hell raising who opted out of academe to try social work, then manual labor, then suicide. He is presented as a victim of terminal decompression from the orbital flight of his college years: a worst-case scenario his friends must ponder, probing themselves for symptoms of the disease...