Word: britannica
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...encyclopedias are intellectual treasure troves. Today one can buy second hand an 11th edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, published in 1910, for $30-50. Written by a generation of gentlemen scholars that possessed a literary taste we have lost, it presents all of science, medicine, history, geography, and the disciplines of the day in 40 million words. Imagine that in 2030, it will be possible to read an encyclopedia of 1970 with as much critical detachment as we today can bring to bear on one of 1910 ! Imagine that we could devise an education today that could cultivate now such...
...this is about encyclopedias, you might as well not waste your time," he said. "I sell Britannica part time...
...ENCYCLOPEDIA by Richard Horn. 157 pages. Grove Press. $4.95. The hapless love affair of hopeful Poet Tom (Americana) Jones and wealthy, bohemia-bound Sadie (Britannica) Massey is cross-referenced in brief, satirical, encyclopedic passages from ABORTION to zoo CAFETERIA. What you can't look up, you can't put down...
...entrepreneurs first met at Oxford, where both were "slightly below average" students. After graduating in 1957, they took a series of jobs, including selling the Encyclopaedia Britannica at U.S. bases in Britain, France and Iceland. Whitfield says that the book-selling stint inspired them to try new ideas. "It taught us about knocking on doors, and that if you keep on going, one is bound to open." Their next ambition is to open some doors in the U.S., where they figure that the leisure business is "100 times bigger" than it is in Britain...
Fully aware that what he was saying would not appear until he was out of office, Lyndon Johnson sat down last May and wrote his view of the press for the 1969 Britannica Book of the Year. The result, described by L.B.J. as "the musings of a man who has seen the press only from the open end of the gun barrel," is an intriguing blend of accusation, sympathy and self-reproach...