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...page handbook on how to assemble electoral majorities is required reading for American politicians. The manual covers everything from bumper stickers ("Make the Message Simple") to sound trucks ("Never Pass Through a Residential Neighborhood After 7:30 p.m."). But O'Brien is much more than an "election man." As a White House aide and then Postmaster General, he successfully promoted the passage of New Frontier and Great Society legislation. Through his undisputed skill and engaging Irish manner, O'Brien still draws affection, respect and trust from all corners of the party. Even his adversaries have found him honest...
Decent and Indecent is a series of essays, not a systematic treatise. Spock apparently could not decide whether he was writing an edification manual for a general audience or an outraged diatribe against the Establishment. In fact, Spock speaks in a bewilderment of voices: part Dear Abby, part pop anthropology, part sex manual, part vintage Spock ("When, during toilet training, he feels cross at his mother, he may withhold the B.M."). At times, though entirely truthful, he is also relentlessly obvious: "Black people continue to be identified and barred by their color...
...following is an excerpt from an unpublished manuscript tentatively entitled How to Succeed by Trying. This manual, which for obvious reasons never will be published, prescribes, with the use of numerous examples, techniques to ensure success in several popular fields of endeavor...
...bone up properly on New Leftese, one must go to the sources, to an anthology doubling as a style manual like The New Left Reader: all dialectics illustrated from late-model Castro to early Rudd (Mark I). And for training the ear, there is a living-vernacular record: Rebellion and Repression, onetime S.D.S. President Tom Hayden's testimony before the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence and the House Un-American Activities Committee. At times the work is a near masterpiece in the invective of martyrdom...
Sheriff James C. Holzman, Wertheimer's new boss, said the rookie's first assignment will be to suggest revisions in the department manual. "We're not asking him to tell us the proper procedure for stopping a holdup man, for instance, but the concepts that underly the procedures." Holzman stated...