Word: bookshelf
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nathan stretches to the far-fetched in his attempt to imagine real life. Several plot contrivances mar the novel. But its richness and vitality cannot be overstated. It reads quickly, much like a longish (180 pages) short story, and so stimulating a novel is hard to relinquish to the bookshelf. The Ghost Writer ends too soon...
...nation's leading humor columnists that some of their best lines are written to each other, and some of their worst. Buchwald, 53, whose political word-cartoons now appear in 510 newspapers, has been trading quips with Baker since they met in Washington 17 years ago. On a bookshelf in Buchwald's office is a photo of Baker, with the inscription: "To Art Buchwald, who with Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon was all that made Washington worthwhile for ten long years...
...infinitely varied floral array to be found in jungles, pampas, steppes and deserts. Hodge's text, despite a deplorable text layout, is as clear as it is authoritative. And the work of the 68 superb photographers who contributed to the collection has no equal on any bookshelf anywhere...
...book business flourished, scores of manuals pouring forth to soothe and lead the nouveau riche nervously forward to some kind of presentability. Some of the rules were quite exquisite then; one writer advised that books by male and female authors should never be placed side by side on a bookshelf...
...manila pieces of papers from right to left so later it can be read from left to right. He is majoring in Spanish--a subject he says he doesn't plan to do anything with, but he wanted very much to learn a language. Large brown folders on his bookshelf containing big sheets of paper are his Spanish dictionary, and underneath that are piles of tapes that are mailed to him on request by a non-profit foundation in New York. If he's lucky, he can get tapes of most of his books, but this year...