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...reserved, contemplative man, Dooley is as much at home with a historical tome as with a playbook (he earned a master's degree in history at Auburn, where he played quarterback and was an assistant coach before going to Georgia). His reserve disappears when the subject is this season's successes. "I wanted the national championship for personal reasons, of course," he says. "I wouldn't be human if I didn't. But I also wanted it for the players and coaches and the loyal fans who have waited so long and been such good friends...
...Webster "Tabular History of the English Language," the "Developments since 1800" list cryptically notes, "Oxford, Century and Merriam-Webster in high-flying company. Oxford, on the other hand, goes on for several pages about the OED and James Murray's gallant 37-year struggle to publish the weighty tome, but does not even mention the Webster edition. War simmers among the lexicographers...
...nouvelle cuisine, the Japanese chef insists: "Let little seem like much, as long as it is fresh and beautiful." Tsuji, a former journalist with a degree in French literature who trained with some of Europe's greatest chefs, has written more than a cookbook: his 517-page tome is both an essay on the culinary philosophy of his country and an explanation of the cultural background of its foods. Along the way, he shows in words and excellent artwork the basic repertory, from sushi to a gala banquet consisting of as many as 30 small portions...
...have tried to interview them all-everybody. This desire to get at least a few paragraphs on every up-and-coming city councilor or county executive in the country is half of the book's most serious flaw. Broder boasts having interviewed 300 people for his 500-page tome; a selective paring of the number of people discussed would have streamlined a bulky text...
...Burt Avedon's Ah, Men! goes into pedantic detail on the subject, using a few of his own thoughts but mostly those of a rather notable group, including Ashley Montagu, Helen Gurley Brown, Sterling Hayden, Gore Vidal, Michael Korda, George Plimpton, et al., in this dry, humorless tome. There are chapters on Growing Up, Work, Goals and Sex, and the quotes run from the noble (Plimpton: "I went to an English school in New York where we were taught that the good life was not simply a question of winning, but rather of doing the best...