Word: shorthanders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from high school. College was not seen as a necessity for many young women, or even as especially desirable. "Your goals were supposed to be modest," she recalls. "If you were a girl, you either got a job and paid board, or you got married." She took typing and shorthand at a vocational school and worked as a copygirl at the Dayton Herald to meet expenses. (Bill Bombeck worked at the morning Journal...
...Herald took on a gifted but erratic recruit after Bombeck graduated from the university. As a reporter, she recalls, "I was terrible at straight items. When I wrote obituaries, my mother said the only thing I ever got them to do was die in alphabetical order." Even with her shorthand, she says, "I could never get the knack of listening and taking notes at the same time." She would get excited and forget to write things down, and "everyone I interviewed ended up sounding like me. I did that with Mrs. Roosevelt and Mrs. Eisenhower." The idea of Eleanor Roosevelt...
...bulk of the text is prepared by local experts and visiting writers who often have a fresher eye for detail than most natives. In every section, one guiding spirit can be detected: Wurman's childhood hero, Paul Klee. He explains, "Klee's paintings had a shorthand that described action, feeling, color, mood. They were not about painting but communication and visual literacy." The overall technique could be a model for future encyclopedias. In Hawaii Access, for example, there are entries on surfing and shells that are definitive in guidebook terms. San Francisco Access includes such regional lore...
...growing attacks. Some of the battles she fought, as recounted in the book's second section--which she dubs "Dugout"--may seem remote to the non-Canadian reader in the present, as may some of the poetry reviewed in Atwood's early years, under the title "Rooming House." The shorthand, completely personal references ("Rooming House," she says, "runs from 1960 to 1971, during which I moved about fifteen times, always to places with a lot of stairs to climb and inadequate heat") typify her critical posture. No polished abstractions these; about half are actually lectures, clipped in tone, played...
...Administration, Hopkins was summoned to the White House to take what was termed "important" dictation. Louis Howe, the gnomelike aide who was chief secretary, did the dictating that night while Roosevelt listened. It was a statement announcing the closing of all U.S. banks. Hopkins got it down in shorthand and said he would rush to get it typed. No time for that, insisted Howe. So Hopkins sat back down and penned a declaration that signaled a firmer Government hand in dealing with the effects of the Great Depression...