Word: reader
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Elizabeth Rudulph, the reporter-researcher assigned to TIME'S Press section, was not a Baker reader until she began working on this week's cover. "Baker is an acquired taste," says Rudulph, now a convert. "It takes a little more effort to read him, but you get a lot back." She interviewed several of Baker's colleagues at the New York Times, close friends like NBC Anchorman John Chancellor and Author David Halberstam, and a number of other leading humorists, including S.J. Perelman and, in a sense, Benjamin Franklin. (Franklin was the nation's first regularly...
...rich and poignant chronicle, and Farrell has researched it down to the last palm-oil statistic. If only he had been content to write history instead of fiction. For the book is not so much imagined as documented. Plot developments, like Singapore rickshas, serve to convey the reader from one exhibit to another. On your right are the rubber industry warehouses, repositories of greed; ahead is Chinatown; up the hill is Tanglin the English colony's surrogate Surrey...
However, before the Crimson editors pat themselves on the back for fighting oppression, they should turn to page eight of the April 26 issue of their newspaper. There they will see a half-page advertisement for Pernod liquor, featuring a suggestively-clad woman propositioning the reader "Voulez-vous Pernod with...
...authors bypass the math and cut to the core, relating the theory's history, fundamental concepts, applications and elements of the current controversy. Although swallowing the theory without the math requires some suspension of disbelief, Woodcock and Davis manage to present a cogent summary and the reader is left with the feeling that he has at least a handhold on the material...
...which they do), it's just that Woodcock and Davis always get the last word. Every objection is countered, and for a while it seems as if catastrophe theory really is the successor to the calculus--until the authors present a series of applications of their own device. The reader's reaction to these examples will most likely determine whether he becomes an advocate or opponent of the theory--a catastrophic jump to extremes, as some theorists have already noted...