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...avant-garde assumption was hardening into orthodoxy, and somehow he never got the message. He went on with his work under the illusion that authors were still required to prove themselves to their audiences, and not the reverse. He told stories as if daring any of his listeners to nod off or leave the room. "It happened like this," he would begin urgently. When he sensed impending restlessness, he would insert a "To make a long story short" and pick up the pace, He practiced this old-fashioned bardic art for so long that it began to look brand...
...corporate annual report may not be an art form that generally inspires much beyond a nod, a wink and a yawn. But when Manufacturers Hanover Corp., the fourth largest financial services organization in the nation, issued its 1981 annual report two weeks ago, the document contained a surprising dividend. Preceding the usual page after page of income and balance-sheet statistics was a sprawling, sunnily optimistic tour d'horizon of America itself, and the author was none other than Magazine Journalist and Novelist E.J. Kahn Jr., 65, a highly regarded staff writer at The New Yorker since...
...arrived it was diluted of all sharpness, and my own staff bounced it back again and again for greater precision-thereby serving the bureau chiefs purposes better than my own. Alternatively, the machinery may permit a strategically placed official's hobbyhorse to gallop through, eliciting an innocent nod from a Secretary unfamiliar with all the code words and implications...
Finally, since the Faculty got the constitution it wanted, it gave the document a preliminary nod of approval. If students vote to approve the constitution next week, the Faculty will, we have been assured, formally approve...
...Maldonado talks on quietly, a few in the crowd firmly nod their heads in agreement. Maldonado mentions another, even more direct threat. "These are the cars without license plates that go into towns at night and kidnap people," he says. This time, a few people even applaud...