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Last week the Ford Foundation gave Franklin $1,000,000 to spur a wealth of new projects, notably the creation of a one-volume encyclopedia, slated for translation into five languages. The work is slow, since each version has to add local lore about flora, history and religion. But the promise is big, since few of the countries have any kind of reference books. With its new Ford money, Franklin is also thinking about untapped markets from Spanish-speaking Latin America to French-speaking West Africa. Soon due for Africa: a first edition of Ferdinand the Bull in Ewe, Fanti...
...against McCarthyism in the 1950s. It was a patriot's protest; few scholars are so enamored of U.S. ideals. Author Jones (The Pursuit of Happiness), who will lecture at M.I.T. this fall, is convinced that "Americanists" have one of the toughest fields around-a thicket of North American lore, its European roots and all of South America as well. It is "not a discipline for the C mind...
...said that Africans would prefer to be greeted in the traditional native way-an upraised hand with no pressing of the flesh. Out went government directives ordering traditional greetings to replace handshakes. The orders were quickly countermanded, however, when an opposition M.P. gleefully announced, after boning up on traditionalist lore, that if the greeting were employed, a white woman meeting a black man would have to kneel down and kiss both his feet...
...alienation when he tried to return to the whites. In 1830 a U.S. Army doctor at Sault Ste. Marie recorded Tanner's narrative. To flesh out the account, Author O'Meara, a former advertising copywriter turned historical novelist, falls back on his formidable store of frontier lore and suggests that the American Indian was something less than nature's nobleman, e.g., some tribes had a habit of roasting captured children alive. But O'Meara cannot get away from the fact that he just does not know enough about John Tanner, who is made to sound more...
...memory of the Civil War, partly because Faulkner has arranged it-everything that has happened for nearly a hundred years exists in an instantaneous, perpetual, heroic present. Faulkner does not so much invent as he seems to recollect his action and anecdote from an existing, constantly growing body of lore. The Reivers is no exception. The outrageous doings of Boon and Lucius in 1905 are told, in 1962, by Lucius to his grandson. Mostly, Lucius remembers things as the eleven-year-old boy he was when they happened. But on occasion, usually to compare the present unfavorably with the past...