Word: encyclopedia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After consultation with Alexis Lichine, famed oenophile (The New Encyclopedia of Wines & Spirits), grower (Cháteau Prieure-Lichine), and wine merchant, TIME Paris Bureau Chief Gregory Wierzynski cabled this vatside evaluation from the major regions...
...achievement: "I wrote most of it, my lad, and snipped out from books enough material for the printer. With pastepot and scissors I composed it." But as of now, Editor Smellie is finished at the Britannica. Because of the encyclopedia's success, both in Britain and the Colonies, the owners wanted all three volumes expanded according to a plan with which he disagreed. He refused; the publishers insisted; he bowed...
...editor, this pair of entrepreneurs sought out Smellie, who was only 28 but had an expertise ranging from Terence to botany. Together with Macfarquhar, he worked out a new plan for an encyclopedia. He would follow the scheme most recently used by French Encyclopedist Denis Diderot?providing long articles on the arts and sciences, but without Diderot's polemical tone; and he would combine these long articles with brief alphabetical listings, as in the current British encyclopedias...
Smellie stipulated that the prime aim should be "utility," so that the encyclopedia has become in large measure a reference book on how to do useful things. There are, for instance, seven pages of instruction on how to build a chimney (under "Smoke"). Smellie himself undertook to write the treatises on 15 major sciences (out of the 45 listed), and his style has a charm of its own. Sample: "The Cat... Of all domestic animals, the character of the cat is the most equivocal and suspicious...
...What is, is," says Werner Erhard, 40, a former trainer of encyclopedia salesmen and founder of Erhard Seminars Training Inc., one of the more mind-boggling of the many self-help programs to come out of California. In 70 hours over two marathon weekends, est aims at "transforming your ability to experience living "through techniques apparently derived from Scientology, psychoanalysis, humanistic psychology, Arica, Gestalt, transactional analysis and various Eastern religions. Since 1971, est has "graduated" 83,000 people in twelve cities...