Word: notebooks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tides. While the dissemination of information in any other course is cyclical, some parts being decidedly less irrelevant than others, Chem 20 ebbs and flows at perpetual middle tide. It make sense to record all or nothing. For the conscientious student, Chem 20 is the university's only three-notebook course. For others Chem 20 turns into a seance. They stare entranced at the C's, O's, H's, and N's and wait for some mystical finger to arrange them in a more significant pattern...
...Boston Globe's stream-of-consciousness writer roamed around the hall without a notebook...
...Globe's news reporter sat up front with the TV-men, huddled over his notebook. A secret serviceman stopped a boy carrying a canvas bag at the front door. The bag was full of dirty laundry...
...with notes that Lowry, an inveterate journal keeper, took during a trip to Mexico in late 1945 and early 1946. "By God, we have a novel here!" Lowry cried on first rereading them. Editor Day more accurately describes Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend Is Laid as "a notebook on its way to becoming a novel." Yet this fragmented, compulsively self-centered, brilliant half book does not at all misrepresent its author. For Lowry was less a novelist than, in Day's words, "a diarist, compulsive notetaker, poet manqué, alcoholic, philosophizing rambler." Writing...
...sleep in only five times in 72 days. Finally, on July 30, he chugged into Paris-the winner by almost four weeks. His circumnavigation cost more than five months and $8,600-every penny, yen, ruble, mark and franc of which Schuster carefully computed in his stained, penciled notebook...