Word: encyclopedias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Quite accurately the latest Encyclopedia Britannica observes in discussing current Indian politics: ''The moderate or liberal element of earlier years has virtually disappeared." Thus British India is represented at the Conference by a group of have-been statesmen chairmanned by the frankly British-subsidized Aga Khan...
...America makes encyclopedic but entertaining reading. Like an encyclopedia or a deep-dish pie it may be dipped into for juicy bits or devoured from start to finish. Some of the juicy bits...
Hendrik Van Loon is plagued with large ideas. When he was eleven he started to write a Universal Encyclopedia of Historical Knowledge. A Dutchman, an escapist (says he: "Even today I know the 17th Century better than the 20th"), Van Loon long planned a life of Rembrandt, whom he considers greatest Dutchman of his time. This is it. Written in the form of the diary of Van Loon's mythical great-great-great-grandfather, an Amsterdam physician, great & good friend of Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, the book is a voluminous (570 pages), discursive, far-from-formal narrative in which Rembrandt...
...cattle, delivered packages for a Detroit drygoods store, then worked on a school census to get money for college, where he paid his way by training a prize fighter, selling class canes, newspaper work. After college he studied languages and psychology in Europe. Onetime U. S. Managing Editor of Encyclopedia Britannica, he is professor of journalism at Co lumbia University, is famed among editors for his consultant ability in reviving mori bund magazines. Other books: The Psy chology of Happiness, The Twilight of the American Mind, The Art and Business of the Short Story, How to Write Stories, Must...
...boredom the only menace fostered by the critic; his efforts often constitute a temptation as well. It is far easier, and much more expedient to read and re-hash the comments which appear in the encyclopedia on the subject of Ben Jonson, for instance, than it is to honor the bard and his works with an original treatise. And to complicate matters still further, the former procedure is invariably productive of a better grade. This unfortunate state of affairs doubtless cannot be corrected by consigning to oblivion all critical essays and essayists, past and present; but before absorbing, sponge-like...