Word: encyclopedia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Third on the program was the smart, husky, popular encyclopedia who calls himself "the best damned no-trump player in the United States," Economist Leon Henderson, who used to work for the Russell Sage Foundation until he was taken to Washington for NRA, after the death of which he buzzed around aimlessly until the Janizariat learned his worth and put him in as TNEC's executive secretary. Through his swift and durable head must pass all the data presented to the Committee, timed and spaced for maximum clarity and effect. He summed up for his economist colleagues, raising...
...year for modern literature. In that year appeared T.S. Eliot's The Wasteland, Joyce's Ulysses, Sinclair Lewis' Babbitt, the first (English-translated) volume of Proust's Remembrance of Things Past. The other literary landmark of that year was a startling encyclopedia, edited by Harold Stearns, called Civilization in the United States, the collective work of some 30 outspoken "young intellectuals," including such names as H.L. Mencken, Van Wyck Brooks, Lewis Mumford. The startling thing about the book was the contributors' pessimism. While the press, economists and politicians glorified U.S. prosperity, these intellectuals croaked...
...Doren's Benjamin Franklin is not so much a biography as an encyclopedia-meaty, informative and valuable, but with few literary charms. It includes the whole story of Franklin's career (Author Van Doren lists 27 subjects or episodes treated for the first time) and readers who stay with it come back with a rich historical haul. They get a good idea of what it was like to be a 17-year-old penniless apprentice in Philadelphia in 1723; a fresh account of the state of science when Franklin began his electrical experiments; an essay on the more...
...University of Chicago's presses last week came two blue-covered pamphlets whose importance to the present and future progress of science and scientific philosophy was belied by their size and price (75 pages and 59 pages; $1 each). The title of the first was Encyclopedia and Unified Science; of the second, Foundations of the Theory of Signs. The two are forerunners of 18 more to be published by August 1939. The first 20 pamphlets, comprising two "volumes," are to be the starting point for other volumes. Editor-in-chief of the project is Otto Neurath...
...capital S should have a unified language and should be in fact a unified human endeavor. Out of this grew a series of yearly congresses on unified science, held in Prague, Paris, Copenhagen, Cambridge, and attended by scholars from many lands. Dr. Neurath's plan of an International Encyclopedia of Unified Science moved toward fruition. This large project was not intended to impose an arbitrary super-system on all the branches of learning, or to suppress honest controversy over the interpretation of facts, which is a potent stimulus to scientific progress. The Encyclopedia was rather to build bridges from...