Word: compendium
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From the U.N., the Reds at Panmunjom got a list of Communist prisoners which was said to total 132,474 names. This compendium, typed on both sides of 2,000 sheets of paper, stood a foot high on the conference table. The Reds objected because the list was written in phonetic English.* "A pile of rubbish," they called it. The objection was odd, for the Communists had been furnished with lists of their prisoners all along through the Red Cross, and had never previously registered a complaint. Nevertheless the U.N. agreed to translate the whole list into Korean and Chinese...
...final and most important step is the writing of a sort of graduation thesis which the Communists call a "thought compendium." It can run up to 50,000 words in exhaustive self-analysis of the student's thoughts from birth to his "conversion." The thought compendium undergoes the scrutiny of the group leader and the party observer...
Once his thought compendium is accepted, the graduate is assigned a job, perhaps with a land reform team, or in Korea, or at a bureaucratic desk. He has no choice of jobs. And along with him, wherever he goes, goes his dossier, always there to be used against...
...that he has lived,, grown and succeeded without being touched by the complexities of modern life would be the grossest exaggeration. The one word-business-connotes a staggering compendium of codes, practices, techniques and philosophies. Charlie Wilson's head is full of them. He is also a Republican serving a Democratic Administration, a free-enterpriser at work administering controls, a critic of Harry Truman, the President, who has sneaked off to Washington for years to visit with Harry Truman...