Word: tomes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only reluctantly to a few friends. Elliot Richardson, his first Washington mentor, recalls it as "marvelously prescient and penetrating," in part because of Darman's gift for dispassionate analysis. Says Richardson: "Dick never allowed his thinking to be colored by how he wished the situation to come out." The tome is now shelved. Darman wants it forgotten. He rebuffed publishers who sought a memoir of his time with Reagan. Reason: a really candid book might limit future opportunities for high office...
...Americans by staking a populist claim to universal education and patriotism. To Hirsch, it is not enough that all children learn how to read; he believes true functional literacy requires a particular back-ground of factual information, which he proceeds to outline in his 600-page, 23-chapter tome. Despite his protestations against labels of academic elitism, however, his arguments are hardly geared to the masses...
Some ABC executives may regret that they are telling this one. In selling ABC the rights to his 1,042-page tome, author Wouk (who also co-wrote the teleplay) demanded stringent restrictions on advertising. No commercials for personal-care products such as laxatives and foot powder. No commercial breaks longer than two minutes. Perhaps most galling to the network, no promotional spots for other ABC shows except at the beginning and end of each episode...
...problem was keeping it quiet. While cutting the 397-page tome down to cover-story length, Seaman had to take special care not to arouse the curiosity of fellow reporters, especially about the manuscript's stunning disclosure of Nancy Reagan's obsession with astrology. "All it would take would be one small hint, one drop of evidentiary blood in the water, and the sharks would go on a feeding frenzy," he says. "For a week or so, I felt almost like an Administration insider trying to keep a scoop away from my colleagues." Seaman's work benefited from the experience...
...Tocqueville myself, but I'm not sure that a defense of the moneyed elite was what Alexis had in mind when he wrote his tome. The final clubs are wealthy, prejudicial associations with a long sexist and racist heritage. They are bastions of old-boy networking and prep-school traditionalism, with wealthy alumni now working at Merrill Lynch and the State Department who fund the clubs and their beautiful limited-access buildings. As Law Professor Alan Dershowitz says, "the final clubs are where Harvard students learn to discriminate...