Word: encyclopedias
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Perry Mason. Sherlock Holmes. Encyclopedia Brown. After this past weekend, I felt that my name should be mentioned along with these great figures in investigative history...
...building carries a full range of titles and offers tomato-basil pie in a second-floor cafe. Owner Richard Howorth maintains a local flavor with a section devoted to Oxford's best-known citizen, William Faulkner. A small sign above the stack of copies of the 8 1/2-lb. Encyclopedia of Southern Culture reads, $5.98 PER LB. SAME AS CATFISH FILLETS...
...learned and low-key, Johnson is an ideal host for the series, which first appeared on Britain's innovative Channel 4. The author of a standard encyclopedia of wine, as well as an invaluable World Atlas of Wine, Johnson is Britain's foremost wine critic; he is admired by his peers as much for his prose as for his palate...
...younger people are maturing earlier and learning more and that women's sexuality, which was previously denied, is starting to be acknowledged. At the same time, men's total authority is starting to crack. Kon even intends to have the word sexism added to the next edition of the Encyclopedia of Philosophy...
They say a little learning is a dangerous thing. Ask Todd Patterson. He had just finished the sixth grade in Franklin Lakes, N.J., when he began compiling his own encyclopedia of all the nations of the world. He wrote to embassies -- including the Soviet Union's -- for information. Enter the FBI, which began investigating the boy and kept at it until it had built up a 17-page file. Now an 18-year-old high school senior, Patterson brought suit in May against the FBI to get access to the files. Last week a federal judge threw out the suit...