Word: catalogs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gets to the point immediately, beginning with: "I am an old woman. I do not pretend to be anything else," and continues to the end hammering this fact home with relentless determination. Nowhere does Miss Thursh behave inconsistently, i.e., like a nice, ordinary human being. She keeps a card catalog on the emotional lives of the neighbors as her kind, simple maid faithfully and quite innocently reports them. Using this field, she calls in a young woman about to be married and treats the poor girl as if she were a statistical abstract...
Leafing through the catalog in search of a course, the undergraduate is struck by the large selection in upper level General Education. These courses, composed without relation to a specific departmental framework, consider widely varying topics of more than routine interest, and for a prerequisite they rarely demand more than an intellectual concern with the subject...
...style has remained much the same but is now a little drier, and even a little surer and more free. Her accompanists also have more fun the second time around, as they recall the old days. The new record is as exciting as any modern item in the catalog. (Col. 753, Verve...
...something of a shock to pick up a slim book of 132 catalog-card size pages and find the volume entitled The Art of Loving. Such a title might be appropriate for a collection of poetry or perhaps some parables, but it is hardly a humble beginning for an essay. One has the strange sensation of being party to a Marlboro book sale where the theory of Yoga and the occult sciences of the Orient are neatly passed along in a hundred pages. This sense of condensation and over-simplification is furthered by the division of The Art of Loving...
...South African station was set up in the twenties, when the Boyden station was moved there from Arequipa, Peru. It offered prime opportunities for photographing the Southern skies, and had a 60-inch reflecting telescope. It was hoped that a definitive photographic catalog of Southern skies could be made there...