Word: reader
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...briefly under Personal Backgrond depending upon how much emphasis and space you want to give them. If you've had leadership positions, responsibilities for organizing or initiating new programs, financial management or any kind of career related experiences, be sure it is clearly described. Explain for the non-Harvard reader what the organization...
Public acceptance of the predicament is improving. Reader's Digest and McCall's, among other magazines, run ads for incontinence products, though Modern Maturity rejects them as not "upbeat" enough. Television networks have eased restrictions. June Allyson, whose mother has the problem, is currently appearing in TV and print ads for Depend disposable pads and undergarments. Manufacturer Kimberly-Clark estimates that sales of all such products will reach $200 million this year. Procter & Gamble's Attends, once sold only to institutions, went on sale to the public nationwide last year, after consumers urged the company to make its Pampers...
...expect the worst' "), and produces metaphors that obviously embarrass their creator: "He felt that he had unwittingly stuck his hand into the Great Wasps' Nest of Life. As an image it stank." But all along he displays one talent that never flags -- he is able to convince the reader that the unreal is actually occurring. Critic Jacques Barzun once analyzed the technique of the effective horror novelist: "Since terror descriptions must perpetually make the reader accept yet question the strange amid the familiar, the writer pursues the muse of ambiguity. He begins by establishing a solid outer shell of comfort...
...chapter heading Science B-16. Walter J. Kaiser '54 was supposed to resume his biennial journey through Elizabethan England yesterday accompanied by his ne'er-do-well sidekick Robert Watson, in an adventure entitled Literature and Arts A-40, "Shakespeare." Or so Courses of Instruction led the unwary reader to believe. But Watson was not granted tenure by the University and will henceforth be frolicking in another forest...
There is a dogged quality to this gentle description, an absolute determination not to let go of the reader before he is made to understand what these infantrymen are enduring. Pyle himself, like the soldiers he covered, was new to war, and only recently rid of the romantic, patriotic belligerence of the Stateside noncombatant. His writing at this period sometimes lapsed into a chatty journalese. A few months before, in Algeria, sounding like a reporter quoting a football coach, he had written cheerily of wounded soldiers who were "busting to get back into the fray again." This was the conventional...