Word: compendium
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...resume of a year's events is predestined to be pretentious. And when this compendium is made at an institution with a three-hundred year history, the result turns out self-centered and smug as well. It is easy to see, then, why the prospect of reviewing the year has always held irresistible attraction for CRIMSON senior editors as they prepare to retire from the journalistic hurly-burly...
...three-quarters of a century, the sun never set on Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians. For archivists and amateurs, professors and performers around the world, England's queen-size compendium* was the first authority on the ways and means of music. But the fourth edition of Grove's (published in 1940) was much the same as the first (1878), and after World War II, London's Macmillan & Co. decided it was high time for a completely revised edition. After nearly ten years of labor-by about 500 contributors under the stern supervision of London...
...chance that there are embryonic Seltzers in the College, the CRIMSON has asked some of its more knowledgeable graduates, now in the Army, to prepare this handy compendium on How to Keep Sane though Uniformed. For best results, glance at it only casually today but glue it to the insides of your overnight bag, and pursue it religiously on your way to induction...
Fortunately the time when Time could sneer has come to an end. A magazine has finally gathered the facts and published them in a compendium of the China Lobby's growth, personnel, activities, and connections. In its latest issues, The Reporter has proven the Lobby's presence on the Washington landscape and has detailed its attempts to further the cause of Chiang-kai Shek. The articles published so far lack the invective, the denunciatory tone, and the indignant cries of betrayal that one might expect in a treatment of so controversial a subject, and instead permits the facts to render...
...Crooked Way is Mississippi-born Elizabeth Spencer's second novel, and it is almost a compendium of all the fashionable faults likely to be found in a young highbrow novelist. Her characters seem scooped from Faulkner rather than observed from life. Her technique of letting several characters tell the story in rotation, also reminiscent of Faulkner, is much too complex for her simple materials. And a throbby, portentous style suggests that, so far, she is more concerned with displaying her sensibility than releasing her story...