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...Coming Boom is, as its title booms, a call to optimism. The question is: How much? If the book's promise is taken at face value, the reader will be disappointed. Kahn occasionally sounds like Annie singing "Tomorrow .. . Tomorrow." But these strained high notes are immediately followed by flat-out qualification: ifs, maybes and "Scotch verdicts," which he describes as "good enough for our purposes." The small print in this social contract gets irritating. One sentence announces a new dynamism, but the next pulls back to "a good possibility for substantial improvement." Some paragraphs seem to have been written...
...measure, or actions that were meant in kindness are misinterpreted. That is the purpose of Miss Manners, and more specifically her book. Unfortunately, trudging through 786 pages in an attempt to assimilate the standards of the ages is likely to be, as the title indicates, excruciating, leaving the Gentle Reader a Hopeless Neurotic...
...perfect accompaniment to his line of bullet-proof clothing. "Gucci," he says with evident pride, "never did gold pistols." Advertisements, which have run in such trendsheets as Interview and Town and Country, include one with a black-robed woman pointing the revolver at the reader...
NONFICTION: Going to the Dance, Arlene Croce ∙The Killing of Bonnie Garland, Willard Gaylin Love, Eleanor, Joseph P. Lash Midnights, Alec Wilkinson ∙The Red Smith Reader, edited by Dave Anderson ∙Sketches from Life, Lewis Mumford
...Smith Reader generously demonstrates, the columnist preferred to write about athletes with a touch of the rogue. His portrait of Babe Ruth is a small masterpiece. It ends with two Yankee teammates, Waite Hoyt and Joe Dugan, sitting together at Ruth's funeral on a sweltering day in 1948. "I'd give a hundred dollars for a cold beer," Dugan whispers. "So would the Babe," Hoyt replies...