Word: compendium
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...arguments are familiar; this book, a compendium of renovated Cold War polemics, will change no minds. Those who have looked with favor on Nixon and his brand of geopolitics in the past will not be disappointed; those who have not will find it a paranoid and self-justifying comic book, tediously rehashing old arguments and hair-raising tales of the Red Menace circa 1980, weighed down by an endless--and pretentious--string of quotes from Karl Marx to Richard Pipes...
...Third Wave doesn't have nearly as many interesting laser-household-pets, deep-sea-wheat-fields, radio-shack-rocket-to-the-moon-kit predictions. Instead it offers a thorough compendium of every social critique ever raised. Ever hear anyone discuss the demeaning, unfulfilling work done in the world's factories? Sure you have. Well, Toffler has too, and he repeats it in ingratiating detail, describing the steel foundry he once toiled in. "I swallowed the dust, the sweat and smoke of the foundry. My ears were split by the hiss of the steam, the clank of the chains, the roar...