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...Readers will find much that is stylistically familiar in Miss Manners' Basic Training: Communication (Crown; 179 pages; $15)--referring to herself in the third person, often amusing in a column but overly arch at book length, and using the locution Gentle Reader. The text is largely a response to letters Martin has allegedly received. It starts off jauntily enough with what Miss Manners likes about life on the Internet: "Cyberspace is like space on the open seas, free of some constraints that should be observed on land." Watch out, though. Already gentility is rearing its well-coiffed head...
...Gentle Reader, all this material is to be found in the first 74 pages of this slender book. The rest is filler about niceties of titles, engraved invitations, birth announcements and letters of condolence. And above all, it is about thank-you notes. They may need all the help they can get to remain a viable institution; as anyone who has ever brought up a child knows, this battle is all but lost. To Miss Manners, however, preserving the thank-you note is to rescue civilization. She is deeply suspicious of the fax machine because she fears it will replace...
...voice leaps in style from snake oil charlatan to coke addict to dyspeptic political pundit. A prenatal savant, he fires off puns and bawdy jokes with a facility alternately Shakespearean and sophomoric. While the narrator never loses steam—sentences regularly stretch over one hundred words—readers might occasionally wish he’d pause to let the rest of us recover from the latest verbal landslide. I wish, for example, there were a few more scenes like that of the narrator’s Uncle Fernando air-dropped into a remote and impoverished Native American community...
...Arts A-72: “The Enlightenment Invention of the Modern Self,” which he will offer again next fall – says he wanted to create an accessible biography “that made Rousseau’s life interesting to the ordinary reader. The existing biographies of him, while thorough, are somewhat long and boring.” “Most people have heard of ‘The Social Contract,’” Damrosch says, referring to Rousseau’s 1762 book outlining the contours of a legitimate...
...memory chip for small devices like phones, it's compatible with standard SD. Since it generally ships with an SD adapter, it will fit into any SD card slot you might have on your computer or printer. (If you don't have one, you can get a USB card reader for around $20.) In goes the card, and an icon pops up, under My Computer in Windows or right on the desktop in a Mac. Drag songs you want to hear to the icon, then slip the card in the phone. In the Get It Now menu, you'll find...