Word: appendix
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Novelists since the time of Fielding have made speeches to their readers, but few can have done so more ingeniously than Herr Kirst: he includes, as a sort of appendix, a section entitled "A Speech Which Has Often Been Pondered But Never Delivered." The speech is superfluous and rather annoying, but it points up the skill with which the author has balanced suspense, satire, and philosophy throughout the rest of the book. Only when the plate marked "ethical implications" falls noisily to earth do we realize that we have been watching a balancing act all along...
...APPENDIX A by Hayden Carruth. 302 pages. Macmillan...
Anguished in spirit but comic in detail, Author Carruth's convoluted tale is a convincing, step-by-step chronicle of a mind stretching beyond its breaking point. But Appendix A is more than case history. If modern man predicates his behavior on a world of non-meaning, Carruth suggests, even the hint of meaning can cripple...
...cease-fire between Germany and the Western Allies. Hochhuth believes that the Pope, as the Supreme Pontiff of the world's most powerful Christian church, was the only man whose formal protest might have deterred Hitler. But the Pope was silent, and in a 45-page historical appendix to the text of his play, Hochhuth charges: "Never perhaps in the whole of history have so many paid with their lives for the passive attitude of one politician...
...Mercury to rectify cases where improper materials were found in the systems because someone had failed to follow the approved materials list." NASA singled out no particular companies from the total of twelve prime contractors, 75 major subcontractors and some 7,200 suppliers involved in Mercury. In a report appendix it listed prime contractors as Aerospace Corp., Chrysler Corp., General Dynamics/Astronautics, General Electric Co., Burroughs Corp., B. F. Goodrich Co., McDonnell Aircraft Corp., North American Aviation, Inc., Pan American World Airways, Inc., Philco Corp., Thiokol Chemical Corp. and Western Electric...