Word: primers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...government, at 26 became a White House speechwriter under Dwight Eisenhower. In 1969 he was appointed national chairman of the White House Conference on Children and Youth. Writer or co-author of five books on politics, he is now writing Organizing the Presidency, a book he describes as a primer for future Presidents...
...version of the myth he'd been caught up in and was obliquely courting for those few years: martyred underground hero, burning star across the long American night, harbinger of the "New Morality," the Counter Culture's John the Baptist. And he's a million dollar property. A paperback primer entitled The Essential Lenny Bruce sells all over the country. In it his routines and schticks are broken down into handy categories, Lenny on "Politics," "Blacks," "Jews," etc. He's been packaged into a trivial musical comedy that aims to sell a ridiculously romanticized "Lenny." And in the works...
Unfortunately, Coleman's usually readable and direct style is marred by his tendency to digress upon boring or inconsequential topics with a numbing, often primer-like tone. Coleman's explanation of the Federal Reserve Bank reads like a government pamphlet and never explains why he "feels proud" just to be associated with "presidents of corporations...
...more timely. He contends that high energy consumption in a world of limited resources necessarily decreases equity and degrades social relations on a global scale. The book is a devastating attack on the developed countries' heedless and gluttonous abuse of the world's energy supplies and a primer for undeveloped nations with similarly reckless ambitions...
...drew and wrote a book called The Art and Industry ofSandcas-tles, which cleverly combined designs for toddlers on the beach with a short history of fortification for older brothers and parents. This time, with pen, ink and wash pictures and accompanying text, he has produced a handsome small primer on sailing that is also a model of brevity, clarity and simplicity. Starting with the Bernoulli effect (which explains how sailboats move to windward), the book ends with anchoring, having passed through everything from knots to points of sail, from rigging to docking, from man-overboard drills to the rough...