The book's roster of notable predecessors starts with Aristotle.
That goal was heard clearly in an opening set with the Richard Sears Group, which featured 78-year-old drummer Albert Tootie Heathth, who has played with a history book's roster of jazz greats that includes John Coltrane, Dexter Gordon and Lester Young.
Berger, who helped make Milwaukee one of the most progressive and well-run cities in the country, was an easy choice for my book's roster of greatest Americans.
In a way, the online persona, with its lists of favorite bands and books, its roster of essential values and tourist destinations, represents a cheaper and more direct way of signalling one's worth and taste than the kinds of affect that people have relied on for centuries — headgear, jewelry, perfume, tattoos.
(One of the delights of Gabler's book is the roster of proper names, many as rubberized as cartoons: Earl Scrogin, Friz Freleng, Grim Natwick, Pinto Colvig, Hardie Gramatky, Dr. Rufus von KleinSmid, and the Dr. Seuss-worthy Gus Van Schmus. Ubbe Iwwerks changed his name to Ub Iwerks, which didn't exactly help).
The books joined a roster of increasingly successful series that also included The Incredible Hulk. Lee and Kirby added another winner to the group when they created The X-Men in 1963.
No coach, even one with Jackson's lofty credentials, is going to turn the Nets into title contenders this season, not with 32 games already in the books and a roster that — for all of its improvement — still needs upgrading.
His glossy new book begins with a roster of extremely basic — and useful — master recipes, like Risotto of Almost Anything and Creamy Any Vegetable Soup, and goes on to simplified versions of Southern classics.
As the book jacket states, the roster of authors reads like a Who's Who in vaccine research and public health immunization programs.
Other critical records, including the missing Duty Roster, Detainee Transfer Book and Pass-On Book also do not appear in the report.
