Word: memos
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Wolfe's editors read over his ping-pong language, his "be-here-now!" style and decided not to reassign the piece. They figured all Wolfe's work needed was a little editing before publishing. They ended up simply striking the greeting to the editor at the beginning of the memo and published the story otherwise unchanged...
...declared Democratic Senator Brock Adams of Washington, meaning that the documents were restricted even beyond top secret. Yet as committee staffers fanned out to retrieve the missile chart from reporters, Helms insisted that the information was either unclassified or had appeared in news reports. A few days later, a memo written by Senate Aide David Sullivan attributed the most sensitive figures to a series of articles in the New York City Tribune, the Washington Times and other newspapers...
...women. There is no doubt that Accutane can cause birth defects, says its manufacturer, Roche Laboratories of Nutley, N.J. But Roche has received reports of only 61 malformed infants born to women who have taken the drug, and the company sharply disputes the figures in the FDA memo. Says Roche Spokeswoman Carolyn Glynn: "The data are grossly exaggerated." An FDA representative acknowledges that Roche's tally is correct and that the 900 to 1,300 figures are projections, not official figures. The internal report containing them was originally meant to be discussed this week, when FDA and Roche officials will...
WHEN Calvino chose the title of his essays, he considered but rejected the word "legacy." The word would have been more appropriate to Calvino's maturity and renown, and like the word "memo," it would have directed the essays towards the future. Furthermore, "legacy" would have been an admission that although Calvino's voice is bold and innovative, it is bound to this century; in post-2000 literature Calvino's voice may be influential, but it will not be able to solve problems that it could not foresee...
...problem with the word "legacy," though, is that legacies are not always useful. There may be regrets and emotional baggage, but great-grandfather's stamp collection eventually gets hocked. "Memo" is utilitarian and modest. No one expects a memo to be preserved out of pure sentiment, because a memo only aims to be helpful for what comes next. And his memos--subtle and insightful--will stick around, because they will remind future writers of what he and his contemporaries have discovered about fiction...