Word: encyclopedias
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...volume encyclopedia should be bigger than a breadbox and smaller than the British Museum. By these criteria, The Random House Encyclopedia (2,856 pages; $69.95) triumphs. At almost twelve pounds, it may be too cumbersome for bedtime perusing, but at least a forklift is not required to hoist it to the pillow. And the R.H.E. is consistently light in tone. Its editors and the 800-plus others who worked on the book have assembled more than 3 million words, but they have also inserted nearly 12,000 color illustrations to brighten the load...
Sample assignment: Write a paragraph on "the advantages of an encyclopedia in every home." The intended reader-an auto mechanic in his 40s, with children. books in his den. and perhaps the question, "With a library down the street, why do we need an encyclopedia?" First, the student must set down short answers to a battery of questions framed in the special Van Nostrand jargon: What is the reader's "frame of reference"? What is the "organizing idea" (theme) of the paragraph? What "set of information" (facts) will be worked into the paragraph? Only after dutifully outlining the requirements...
...revived-with a vengeance. "She thought everybody should experience international cooking," Charlie recalls. "She served Greek dishes, North African couscous, Turkish goulash, and she and the kids would dress up in the costumes of the country of that evening, and I was supposed to read about it from the encyclopedia. The point was that I saw how hard she was trying, and I couldn't help but respond. Her efforts showed up my failures...
These bits of blunt advice are not delivered by a kindly country doctor but by an unusual new medical guide for lay people. Unlike most other books in this proliferating genre, Symptoms: The Complete Home Medical Encyclopedia (Thomas Y. Crowell; $17.95) helps the medically untutored diagnose an illness as the professionals do: by its symptoms...
...ENCYCLOPEDIA OF FAIRIES...