Word: meads
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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CURTAIN by AGATHA CHRISTIE 238 pages. Dodd, Mead...
Korda's book is the more sophisticated of the two. Currently editorial top dog at the book-publishing firm of Simon & Schuster, Korda, 42, updates Adman Shepherd Mead's 1952 book How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, and the result could be made into an equally entertaining musical comedy. In Mead's day, the status symbol was a key to the executive washroom. Now, says Korda, it is an IBM Selectric II for your secretary...
...FALSE SPRING by PAT JORDAN 277 pages. Dodd, Mead...
...annual Delos symposium, a week-long Aegean cruise to which he would invite 30 or so distinguished thinkers. A typical guest list would include the likes of Inventor Buckminster Fuller, Historian Arnold Toynbee, Industrialist Robert O. Anderson, Economist Barbara Ward and Media Guru Marshall McLuhan. It was, Anthropologist Margaret Mead once said, the closest thing to the great English house parties of the turn of the century-stimulating talk in an informal atmosphere...
Ships of fools and modern hostelries continue to do the job that mead halls and pilgrimages did for earlier eras of writers. They provide a place where assorted folk can tell their tales, show their colors and generally present themselves for inspection. In The Little Hotel, Australian Novelist Christina Stead, 74, has assembled a crew as sad, funny and perverse as any ever gathered together in the name...