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Do your eyes glaze over when you read a letter from your bank? When your company speaks of enhancing the bottom line, does your mind shut down? New styles of business management have forced on us a new public language that makes no sense to outsiders, and confounds even those who use it. Don Watson, one-time political speechwriter and author of Recollections of A Bleeding Heart, can take it no longer. In Death Sentence, part diatribe, part cool reflection on the state of Australia's public language, he takes a blowtorch to the words - and their users - who kill joy, imagination and clarity. Scathing, funny and brilliant, Death Sentence is a small book of profound weight and timeliness. |