Volume 28, Number 15 · October 8, 1981
Modern Times
By Jeremy Bernstein
The Soul of a New Machine
by Tracy Kidder
Atlantic-Little, Brown, 293 pp., $13.95
Journalists who want to write about practically anything now seem to begin, as a matter of course, in some remote, unlikely place, and in a sort of random walk approach the subject matter in question only when and if it suits them. Here is an example—followed by a short quiz. It—the example—is taken from the opening paragraph of the prologue to the book that I have every intention of reviewing as soon as I am done with this prologue.
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