Word: encyclopedia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Western country, publication of a book entitled The Small Encyclopedia of the Bible would hardly have been noticed. But when Hungary's state-owned printing house announced that the title would be one of 135 works introduced during the country's annual book week, the news was sensational. Like every other Communist regime, after all, Hungary's propagates atheism; and while in practice it tolerates religious observance by its 5.8 million Catholics and 2.6 million Protestants, the Bible itself is available in only a single church bookstore in the country. It is frequently out of stock...
...There are actually two stores called Harvard Bookstore--one on the corner by Plympton St. and another, two stores up, which sells cheap copies of out-of-print books--generally good for such bargains as The New York Times Most Famous Front Page Collection, for $1.98, the $25 Baseball Encyclopedia for $8.98, and other cut-rate goodies. Meanwhile, the Harvard Bookstore (corner variety) has a marvelous display case of newly-released first editions, so you can spend your summer popping in and out, looking to see what's new in the literary world, and generally feeling very up-to-date...
Over its 500 years of cultural eminence, Dresden ideally demonstrated the evolution of collecting. First there was the essentially private Kunstkammer (cabinet of curiosities) of the Elector Augustus I (1553-86) and his successors. In special palace rooms, they assembled a kind of encyclopedia of the world's wonders, here painstakingly reconstructed from engravings and a 1587 inventory of objects. Since in their view, painters and sculptors were artisans like any other, bronze busts of earlier Electors, paintings of Adam and Eve, and a portrait of Martin Luther get no greater pride of place than the products of other...
...master of invective, Mencken never failed to beguile his audience. Even Southerners were amused when he labeled Dixie the Sahara of the Bozart. And his classic encyclopedia, The American Language, brilliantly traced the wellsprings of slang and ethnic argot. But in larger matters he was more naive than the booboisie. When real goose-steppers came along, Mencken failed to perceive the German danger and, as Fecher notes, "brushed off Nazi treatment of the Jews." His literary criticism was sometimes blind to contemporary talent: he thought Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath was "full of pink hooey" and found...
Perhaps the most ambitious entry in the 60-minute dash is ABC's new 20/20, an hour-long encyclopedia of news, personality sketches, investigative reports, cultural and sociological features and satirical skits, possibly by Chicago's Second City troupe. The show is expected to appear in June. Executive Producer Bob Shanks (ABC's Good Morning, America, public television's Great American Dream Machine) has approached at least a dozen candidates for the host job, including Washington Post Executive Editor Ben Bradlee, who turned down a $5,000-a-week salary and a promise that he could...