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...belongs to the young. Schoolchildren shovel information out of an encyclopedia. Gradually they complicate the burglary, taking from two or three reference books instead of one. The mind (still on the wrong side of the law) then deviously begins to intermingle passages, reshuffle sentences, disguise raw chunks from the Britannica, find synonyms, reshape information until it becomes something like the student's own. A writer, as Saul Bellow has said, "is a reader moved to emulation." Knowledge transforms theft. An autonomous mind emerges from the sloughed skin of the plagiarist...
...already been rewritten. The revised account of Ulam's pivotal role appears in several new books, including a biography of Teller by Stanley Blumberg and Louis Panos to be published in February by Scribner's. And it is repeated in detail in the latest revision of the New Encyclopaedia Britannica, due out next month...
...Encyclopaedia Britannica...
Shoppers were lured by such exotic wares as Nigerian cotton shirts, jars of sand and gravel from different parts of the world, Polish boxes, trays and dolls, several volumes from the 1830 Encyclopedia Britannica, and costumes from a 1920s marching band...
Small wonder. Besides having poured out a lifetime total of 40 books, Adler sits as chairman of the board of editors of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, runs his own institute and promotes Britannica's Great Books program (about 250,000 copies sold since 1952), which he conceived and for which he churned out a 1 million-word index in 26 months. Sighs Theodore Sizer, 54, chairman of Brown University's department of education: "If I have that much energy and optimism when I'm his age, I'll be a lucky person...