Book Review of ‘Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed’ by Ben Rich (with Leo Junos) and ‘The Story of Webster’s Third: Philip Gove’s Controversial Dictionary and its Critics’ by Herbert Morton
Victorian Bar News, Vol. 92, pp. 83-85, Autumn 1995
4 Pages Posted: 31 Jan 2010
Date Written: Autumn 1995
Abstract
Review of "Skunk Works: a personal memoir of my years at Lockheed" by Ben Rich (with Leo Junos) and "The story of Webster’s Third: Philip Gove’s controversial dictionary and its critics" by Herbert Morton. These books describe two creative men and their work products – innovative top secret US military aircraft and the current edition of Webster’s Third New International Dictionary.
Keywords: Lockheed, Merriam-Webster, Webster’s Dictionary, product development, research and development, aerospace, aircraft design, controversy, criticism, dictionaries, prescriptive, descriptive, word usage, style, grammar, meaning
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