Word: encyclopedia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...part of the American scene, if not the American Dream. While the programs are familiar and well publicized in their broad outlines, most people except those directly affected do not know the details in all their dizzying ramifications. How Uncle Sam turned into Big Daddy is delineated in The Encyclopedia of U.S. Government Benefits (William H. Wise & Co.; $9.95), whose revised edition, incorporating Lyndon Johnson's new measures approved by the 89th Congress, is coming off the presses this week. Part of the publisher's purpose is to help people find out about Government benefits they could rightfully...
...World Book Encyclopedia, which had concentrated on quantity of sales, had turned out to be so profitable-$130 million sales this year-that Field had the financial resources for expansion in several directions. On the Chicago River, he built a $21 million modern newspaper plant that now prints both the Field papers. He joined with the New York Herald Tribune in a news syndicate that served 1,800 papers and included such big names as Cartoonist Bill Mauldin and Columnist Ann Landers. He was ready to go on the air this January with his first television station...
This resolutely useless information is published in one of the year's most peculiar and fascinating books, an encyclopedia of logology assembled by a stark-raving logomaniac named Dmitri Alfred Borgmann, a Chicago actuary whose name, when its letters are transposed, spells "damn mad boring trifler." Boring he is not. Among his offerings...
...Only two years intervene, but in that limited lifetime she accomplishes almost everything the species was designed to do. In describing what she does, Author Murphy, a man who can think like a scientist and write like a bird, manages to produce both a fascinating tale and a veritable encyclopedia of the eagle...
...total experience of human being is reconstituted in radiance. At one level, La Commedia is a spiritual autobiography; at another, a parable of the progress of the soul; at a third, one of the noblest love stories ever told. Incidentally it is a manual of mysticism and an encyclopedia of Greek, Hebrew, Arabic and Scholastic learning. Fundamentally it is both a fearful reprise of Apocalypse and the gospel of a rising religion of individuality that still moves and shakes the Western world. And spiritually, because it so profoundly agitates the great continuing questions of man's essence and existence...