Word: edition
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most obvious (and most optimistic) continuity in Fairbank's life has been his complete dedication to his China mission. It is not surprising that the first major task of his retirement will be to edit the new Cambridge History of Modern China. Some say that Fairbank's editing of the extensive series, in addition to his writing one of the volumes himself, may take the professor the rest of his life. But the Fairbanks seem to have the gift of the East for age as well as wisdom. Fairbank's mother, who is over 100, is still living...
...find and spliced together their aerial-combat footage. "We did all that to get an idea of how to set up this scene," he explains. "It was all very complicated, with the most complicated sound problems, mixing and special effects." The dashing ten-minute sequence took eight weeks to edit (normally 105 minutes of a Lucas film can be edited in that time...
...took him to breakfast to discuss the young man's future employment prospects. Straus brought along Norman Cousins, editor of Saturday Review since he turned 25 in 1940. Cousins "liked the cut of his jib" and last week found something for young Tucker to do: buy and then edit Saturday Review. The price was from $3 million to $6.5 million, depending on various future expenses, and part of the money comes from the Straus and Tucker families. Cousins, 61, will stay on as editor for a couple of years as he trains Tucker to succeed...
...foreign affairs included a sardonic plea to keep the U.S. out of a European war (England Expects Every American to Do His Duty, 1937). His Anglophobia, however, was tempered after the U.S. joined the conflict. Following the war, Howe continued as a broadcaster, taught journalism, helped found and edit Atlas magazine...
...either self-imposed or the result of the rejection of his theories by the established authorities. In Fell's case, his isolation seems to be the result of both. Gardner says the rejected psuedo-scientist usually "speaks before organizations he himself has founded, contributes to journals he himself may edit." True enough: Fell publishes his epigraphic work in a journal which he founded and which he edits. Fell says the Occasional Publications of the Epigraphic Society began four years ago after his work had been consistently rejected by the established linguistics and archeology journals...