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Inevitably, one compares the main entries with those in similar recent works, such as Leslie Dunkling and William Gosling's Everyman's Dictionary of First Names (1983) and Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges' A Dictionary of First Names (1990).
When that failed, they turned to the do-it-yourself approach, creating a lively demand for self-instruction books of the Everyman His Own Lawyer kind, foreshadowing the present-day will- and estate-planning kits.
Either way, Brodkey embraces a self-absorption so extreme that it succeeds, paradoxically, in turning him into an Everyman:
Dramatic Poesy & Other Essays, John Dryden, Everyman's Library, J.M. Dent, 1912, 1950, p. 100.
As decision making has devolved from the autocrat to the ordinary citizen, it is the ordinary citizen--the anonymous Everyman, an embodiment of rights and responsibilities shared by all--whose name is increasingly invoked.