Word: notebooks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...book is more important to understanding the new perspective than Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook, published in 1962. It is an ambitious, cerebral work about a generous, brave and intelligent woman named Anna Wulf, a writer, leftist, divorcee, analysand who, like the author, emigrated from South Africa to London. Anna thinks of herself as "a free woman," independent of marriage contracts and numerous other social conventions, really interested only in people "who have tried the frontiers...
...Dime Notebook...
PHELAN. During his moviemaking days, Hughes carried a 100 notebook in which he jotted down technical points about the craft that he picked up along the way. Says Dietrich: "One day he called me in a state of agitation and told me he had lost it. 'I've got to get it back,' he said. 'Do what you have to do to recover it.' I offered a reward in every available medium, and advertised for weeks. I spent over $1,000 trying to retrieve his 100 notebook, but we never got even a nibble...
IRVING quotes Hughes: "I made up a little code for figures, for prices and costs . . . Then I lost the notebook. I was beside myself because it seemed that everything I knew was in that notebook, and I had lost it." Hughes ordered Dietrich to retrace every step that he, Hughes, had taken on the day of the loss, to get down on his hands and knees every 25 yards along the route to inspect the ground. Adds Hughes: "He sent me the cleaning bill for his trousers, the cheap bastard...
...Turner went on to found such companies as Fashcot, which sells wigs, Emcot, which makes pink and yellow colored fur coats, and Transcot, a trucking firm. One of his companies sells a success-motivation course called "Dare to Be Great," which consists of a recorder with cassettes and a notebook crammed with such power-releasing hints as "Develop a Positive Mental Attitude" and "Remember Everybody's Name." Complaints about the course, which costs up to $5,000 to complete, have brought legal actions in eight states. In Davidson County, Tenn., five "Dare to Be Great" salesmen were arrested...