Word: marginalia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...free-lance. He jots dozens of private notes, reluctant to rely on dictation. He makes and takes scores of phone calls each day, talking to an army of people in and out of government, from Congressmen to civil rights leaders to cronies from the Texas oil fields. He loves marginalia: recently he extensively edited a staff memo on Soviet- American relations...
...should have left it to someone else to explain how people can organize the overflow of data that saturates contemporary life. Information Anxiety is an intermittently diverting self-help guide, Megatrends crossed with What Color Is Your Parachute? But it is more a collage than a book -- with digressive marginalia, diagrams, stray factoids and snatches of autobiography...
Historians of presidential dress and eating habits take note: Anwar Sadat has an aversion to shellfish and dinner jackets. Marginalia in the great sweep of international affairs, of course, but such items were priorities for the White House staff as it planned last week's double date for Anwar, Jihan, Ronnie and Nancy. It was the first state dinner in the Reagan Administration at which men wore business suits instead of black tie. Not a shrimp or crab claw was to be seen. But the Reagans' high style was very much in evidence, reinforcing their reputation...