Word: notebook
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...commute." At home or abroad, he regularly arrives at Sony's offices by 8:30 a.m. and works for twelve hours or more. In off hours in foreign cities, he likes to stroll about checking on store displays of Sony and competing products and jotting observations in a notebook. "Business is my hobby," he says...
...Some policemen at this point seized a news, photographer's exposed film and destroyed a reporter's notebook as newsmen attempted to keep up with the charge...
When the board convened, at least ten fights broke out; a white reporter for the New York Times was beaten by blacks who grabbed his notebook and wallet. No one had time for the views of Rita Majette, 22, a black union member who complained: "I have kids in seventh-grade, reading on a fourth-grade level, but how can it be my fault? I've only been teaching for one year." The attitude of some unionists had become far meaner. "They want to tell us what to do," complained Teacher Frank Marzerella. "Do I have to be judged...
...Hamm. Though unable to use his eyes or his body, he rivets the audience's attention with his voice and a remarkable repertoire of arm gestures. His highpoint is an attempt to narrate a story he has composed, throwing out one version after another, ripping pages from a notebook he isn't supposed to be able to read, commenting on the narrative ("A bit feeble, that"), and eventually running out of inspiration. His only problem is a voice that at times seems to verge on a Kirk Douglas imitation...
Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook (1962) is a key to the new book, as it is a key to all her work. The sections of the notebook divide themselves by color. Black: dealing with Africa-the failed hope of homeland for one of her principal characters. Red: dealing with politics-the failed hope of Communism. Blue: dealing with emotions-the failed hope of possessive love. Yellow: the story within the stories-the hope of art to make sense of all the rest. In effect, Miss Lessing has been working through this sequence of disillusion toward a private religion...