Word: mimeographed
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...tells it in her newest book, Joyce Maynard received a mimeograph machine from her mother for her seventh birthday. Not lacking in initiative, young Maynard began producing a newspaper and selling it door to door. "It would never occur to me that our neighbors wouldn't be interested to read what I write. Or that I shouldn't charge a nickel for it. Later a dime," Maynard notes. "My mother schools me young to view my writing as valuable. She conveys another lesson too: whatever happens in my life, I can look at it as material...
...beginning to burst its seams economically, technologically, culturally. When Kennedy took office, the American economy was growing at a little more than 2% a year. By the end of 1963, the growth rate was nearly 6%. He came to office in the days of carbon paper, mimeograph machines and flashbulbs. Three years later, jet airliners, interstate highways, direct long-distance telephone dialing, and Polaroid cameras were speeding up people and life. New things and words were appearing almost every day: ZIP codes, Weight Watchers, Valium, transistors, computers, lasers, the Pill...
...introduced to the rituals of the cloakroom, was bumping along the back roads of Nicaragua a fortnight ago accusing President Reagan of "deception, distortion and duplicity." Former Secretary of State Dean Rusk may have had a point when he said, "Give a member of Congress a junket and a mimeograph machine, and he thinks he is Secretary of State." When Harkin and his fellow freshman Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts got home brandishing a cease-fire proposal from Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega Saavedra, the venerable Republican Barry Goldwater said they both ought to be reprimanded for interfering...
...despair of their accountants, publishers continue to release books of poetry-more than 400 a year in the U.S. That number is swelled by vanity presses and duplicating or mimeograph machines. Almost no one makes money in the process. New poetry volumes are not piled up by cash registers; some stores even begrudge them shelf space. Yet the situation is not as dismal as it seems. Poets continue to write, and persistent readers continue to find them. Promising new voices speak out; others fulfill earlier promises. This season offers five books that are worth tracking down...
...machine. It is rusty, inefficient, temperamental and stored in the basement, where it is the object of not very affectionate contempt around Atlanta police headquarters. No, it is not a disused mimeograph; it is, in fact, the vice squad. Therefore its components are human beings, full of complaints and crotchets and in need of something more interesting to do than process the night's haul of pimps and prostitutes. They are also in need of a light coating of respect...