Word: toffler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...beguiles with a spray of mad moonlight and a whiff of tidal air. The latest expression of the baby boomers echoes in the surfeit of blossoming tummies, tired legs and aching backs of these regiments of expectant mothers. The party may even continue into the night. Frenetic Futurist Alvin Toffler believes that only a lack of medical technology binds women to the end of fertility. He writes: "Once child bearing is broken away from its biological base, nothing more than tradition suggests having children at an early age." The pregnancies of the future may be delayed until retirement, Toffler concludes...
...Lanier "No Problem," authors and others could easily imagine themselves at the console. Spurred by the new availability of word-processing programs for personal computers like Radio Shack, Apple and Atari, demand for home units has risen dramatically. Among the aficionados: Bestseller Luminaries Michael Crichton (Congo) and Alvin Toffler (The Third Wave). Spy-Master Robert Ludlum endorses the Atari system in magazine ads. Though Novelist Irving Wallace still writes on a 1920-vintage portable, he has promised his secretary a processor...
...anything-goes school of writing is exemplified by other recent bestsellers: Judith Krantz's Princess Daisy, Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Identity, Alvin Toffler's The Third Wave or Bob Woodward and Scott Armstrong's The Brethren. Like Talese, Woodward and Armstrong are not only verbose but fond of dangling their modifiers and splitting their infinitives. Toffler specializes in hyperbolic jargon: "Vast changes in the techno-sphere and the info-sphere have converged to change the way we make goods. We are moving rapidly beyond traditional mass production to a sophisticated mix of mass and demassified...
...Third Wave, Toffler...
...Third Wave, Toffler...