Word: foreword
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...result falls somewhere between Who's Who and Confidential. In a foreword Amory boasts that no one listed in the register "paid to get in-or, for that matter, to get out." The listing on Novelist Truman Capote says that he has "a foliage of blond and somehow defensive bangs." Marie ("The Body") McDonald is described as "one of the most remarkable wives in the country-she has had seven marriages but only three actual husbands." The entry on Charles Van Doren was hastily updated to include a reference to his October shame: "Suspended by NBC . . . pending the outcome...
These volumes, in general, are studies by individual scholars within a certain area of Soviet life. Although the Center believes in what the socal relation people call interdisciplinary "cross-fertilization," it does not seek to accomplish this through collaboration or group projects. As Kluckhohn observed in the foreword to Joseph S. Berliner's Factory and Manager in the USSR (No. 27 in the Russian Research Center series), the Center thinks that such an inter-disciplinary approach is most successful when it takes place "under one skull...
...historic credit," the study says gratefully, "to have recognized the vital importance of creating healthy economic conditions as an essential prerequisite for a lasting peace." Wrote Austria's Chancellor Julius Raab in a foreword : "The generous aid of the American people ended the seemingly inevitable decline of the old continent. Today there is no doubt that without this aid Europe would have been engulfed by poverty, suffering and chaos . . . Whenever and however we celebrate the anniversary of Austria's rescue from economic collapse, we should remember that the means for our reconstruction were contributed by the American taxpayer...
Unfortunately for the committee and its attitude of injured righteousness, the facts of the situation point in a somewhat different direction. The first Unofficial Guide appeared September, 1952. The Harvard Handbook of 1952 contains nothing in common with this Guide. However, the 1953 Handbook contains verbatim the "Foreword" and about ten interior pages, including articles an "The Boston Area," "How to Meet Women," and "Finding Your Way" from the 1952 Guide. The (then) responsible Handbook committee printed an acknowledgment: "To the Graduate Student Council ... we give our warmest appreciation." Future Handbooks continued to use freely material from the successive Unofficial...
...earful, the Sonorama listener-reader merely folds back the issue on its plastic hinges, slips it on the turntable spindle through a ready-made hole in the center of the magazine. Wide-ranging and middle-browed, the first issue opens with a pretentious foreword ("In the beginning was the word"), plods through some humdrum popular singing, purrs with the coquetry of Cinemorsel Brigitte Bardot as she chats about Boy Friend Sacha Distel ("I'm at the end of the world with Sacha"). Sonorama comes close to justifying Editor Claude-Maxe's lofty claims with two superb records...