Word: tom
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Civility was dealt a further crippling blow by what the author Tom Wolfe calls "The 'Me' Decade." The social crusades of the '60s (the civil rights movement, the antiwar campaign, the counterculture) broke up a lot of institutional furniture but left little to replace it in the mid-'70s except intense, aggressive self-regard. People went to classes to learn what frequently turned out to be bad manners, the assertiveness training courses that held that you have to be pushy to get what you want. Manners were not the message of Robert Ringer's 1977 bestseller, Looking...
...that twelve quarters means three-quarters of each game. The people back of him are given that much less preparation time." Dallas Coach Tom Landry admits: "I don't think we really adjusted to the short training-camp schedule. We coaches have to learn to pace the players better and peak earlier...
...place like home. Take the London house furnished by British Author Ian McEwan, 29, in this tight, unsettling first novel. The place stands almost deserted amid urban rubble, one of the few survivors of a highway plan that went nowhere. In it live Julie, Jack, Sue and Tom, a reasonably normal array of siblings ranging in age from 17 to six, and their mother, who is dying. The earlier death of the father and the mother's terminal illness have produced an upsurge in slovenliness and disorder among the children. What happens when the last adult dies...
NIGHT AND DAY by Tom Stoppard...
...Tom Stoppard sits down at a keyboard of words, and plays upon them with wickedly clever virtuosity. Few can resist his cerebral variations on the themes of Hamlet in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, and The Importance of Being Earnest in Travesties...