Word: encyclopedia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...children and dogs. On the other hand, he also scrupulously avoids the kind of titillating invasion of privacy -the tears, the booze, the beating of fists on the carpet-that Woodward and Bernstein trade on in The Final Days (TIME, March 29). The result is a massive, careful encyclopedia that sorts out all existing Nixon-era evidence-the tapes, hearings. Justice Department documents, civil-suit depositions, newspaper and magazine accounts-and puts them in order for the final judgment of a dispassionate reader, or of history itself. The Lukas index alone runs to 45 pages. In short, the one book...
Southwestern Publishing sells dictionaries and encyclopedia-like book sets to student salesmen, who then sell the books door-to-door. Southwestern employed 6800 college students last year, more than anyone but the federal government, and expects to hire between 7000 and 8000 this summer...
...criminal specialties, from crude second-story work to deft embezzlement, none requires more patiently marshaled skills than those of consummate check forgery. The practitioner must combine the nerve of a sugar-futures trader, the painstaking craftsmanship of a calligrapher and the face-to-face charm of a successful encyclopedia salesman. He must win people's trust in order to clean them out. Where other criminals can hope to muster enough luck to succeed, the passer of bum checks relies on finesse and self-confidence honed to fine arts...
...work on it. Such people were not rococo milkmaids. They were the rural lumpen proletariat, the rooted, shapeless mass brutalized by the agrarian disasters of the '40s and '50s. Millet was the first artist to make peasants a subject instead of an accessory. His paintings are an encyclopedia of work: digging, hoeing, planting potatoes, spreading manure...
...wines of Europe that started him on his career as one of the nation's premier wine critics. Later Schoonmaker became a consultant to leading American vintners and went into the wine business himself. His books include Frank Schoonmaker's Dictionary of Wines and the Encyclopedia of Wine...