Word: manuals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...style is uneven. When the dialogue is explained, it is sometimes done well and unobtrusively, but at other times the language sounds like a G.E. instruction manual ("Cora placed the items on the table...
...Book, Washington's suede-covered guide to the up and climbing. Getting into The Green Book requires that you not at present be divorced or separated, "unpleasantly notorious," or missing from the recommended list of entries sent over from the White House. The socially savvy staff of the manual add and subtract names right up until the last minute, and were glad that there was still time to delete the Washington socialite who died in a suspicious fire. Says the publisher with a sigh of relief: "It is awful to have someone who may have been murdered still listed...
...quiet down, a family celebrating the end of another hot night on the town came in modeling green doubleknit leisure suits and singing "Happy Birthday" as they lost their last shreds of sobriety. Hard on their heels came an arrant MIT professor jauntily sporting a computer logic manual and a beautiful women some 20 years his junior...
...vows to escape the suffocating restrictions of the bloodless upper class: "Amy was alive; Amy throbbed. For what was life but wanting to live?" Auchincloss's penchant for the portentous flourish has never been more in evidence; in the spirit of a self-help manual rather than a heroine, Amy proclaims to Fidler's wife: "I exist. I feel. You're the one who's concerned with doing. I just am, that...
...urban guerrilla follows a political goal and attacks only the government, the big capitalists and the foreign imperialists, particularly North Americans." Since the mid-1960s, when the late Brazilian revolutionary Carlos Marighella made that declaration in a manual that has since become a text for terrorists everywhere, businessmen have found themselves the targets of violence in many parts of the world, notably Latin America and some relatively prospering democracies of Western Europe. The bombings, kidnapings and assassinations have not spread-at least so far-to the U.S., but American firms are increasingly troubled by the phenomenon...