Word: unraveler
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...readers are willing to unravel yards of obscuring verbiage, they will find flashes of vivid comic writing-and a sometimes gripping Field & Stream hunting yarn told in what Mailer fondly believes to be the accents of Ernest Hemingway. Unhappily, Mailer is not only politically naive; even his doggedly filthy language is grade-B graffiti...
...Princeton Professor Eric Goldman believes that p.r. can be an indispensable asset to U.S. society in reconciling the profit motive with the public interest. To the extent that p.r. men respect the intelligence of the public, the public will respect them, as helpers in the increasingly difficult struggle to unravel the complex situations and cryptic messages of modern life...
...look is that of a politician. This book, which grew out of a TIME cover story (Dec. 11, 1964), is by Tokyo Bureau Chief Jerrold Schecter, 34, who did much of the research for the story. It is the first comprehensive, country-by-country attempt to unravel the passions and contradictions of Buddhism in the political arena...
...80th or maybe even 90th book. No use trying to count, they say, because in Wodehouse's puzzling world, as in Einstein's, one and one don't always add up to two. Quite true. Old Wodehouse-masters know it is equally fruitless to try to unravel the plot in one of his potty idyls. In this book, he sets out to tell the tale of a cuckoo American millionaire's efforts to steal an 18th century paperweight from an English manor house. What he also does in his incomparable way is to prove that...
...building blocks of the course is Dorfman's explanation of price theory. Because many of us spend so much time trying to unravel its intricacies, its political biases and implications tend to slip in through the back door. It is possible to go into a detailed critique of the assumptions and analysis of so-called welfare economics (the name for the model presented in Dorfman), and reading along this line is discussed in the bibliography. For present purposes, we will restrict ourselves to four political-philosophical assumptions which, although unmentioned by Dorfman, becloud the claims of his system...