Word: compendium
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Beeton's Book of Household Management -First Facsimile Edition, by Isabella Bee-ton. 1,112 pages. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $12.95. An engrossing compendium of cookery, psychology, etiquette, management, legal, medical, moral and drainage information, which first appeared in England in 1861 and is still history's bestselling cookbook. "Men are now so well served out of doors-at their clubs, well-ordered taverns and dining-houses," the author points out, "that in order to compete ..." Any bride can finish the sentence. Mrs. Beeton, however, makes the role of bride only slightly less awesome than handling flight patterns...
Gods do not make bricks, of course -or build sun domes, or scramble for sassafras in the shrubbery of Central Park. But for people who do, or want to, the Whole Earth Catalog is an almost inexhaustible compendium. Although it is specifically aimed at "technological dropouts" (in the words of its authors), the catalogue's phenomenal success shows that it has a far vaster range of appeal. It is a sort of Sears, Roe-buck-Consumer Report for the minorities of the cybernetic age-from activists who want to improve the environment or create a Utopian society to abdicants...
Annually, the Association publishes Journal, a compendium of scholarly materials written on legal topics. Another publication, the Newsletter, is a monthly collection of cases and their summaries. Trial magazine, the only national legal magazine in the country, reflects the Association's attitudes on public affairs relevant to the legal profession...
LOVE, AMERICAN STYLE (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). A compendium on the subject, with stories of various lengths and guest stars in each. Flip Wilson in "Love and the Hustler," Robert Cummings and Jane Wyatt in "Love and the Pill," Michael Callan, Penny Fuller and Yvonne Craig in "Love and a Couple of Couples." Premiere...
...Close Compendium. Nearer to Moscow, an inquiring tourist can now find and enjoy a compendium of Russia's best architecture...