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British critics sometimes express surprise that Ayckbourn's provincial comedies (Absurd Person Singular, The Norman Conquests) find appreciative audiences in the U.S. Perhaps suburbia is not a locale but a compendium of transferable manners and mores...
Picked-Up Pieces is to date the most thorough compendium of what Updike thinks of writing, and how he feels himself a writer. In a speech "Why Write?" he observes...
...Rosovsky's comments in the Yellow Pages honed in on such specific problems that the letter left considerable confusion over his goal: Was it a Redbook Redux or merely a compendium of detailed and thus ephemeral and short - term revisions? Rosovsky himself acknowledges that he has switched intentions: "There is no contradiction, I've just changed my mind. I began with a notion that there were lots of things we could clearly do better that if we fixed up six to eight quite obvious problems it would justify the effort. I have come to realize more is needed." Rosovsky...
Samuel Johnson's two-volume dictionary was published in 1755, just four years after the first volume of Denis Diderot's Encyclopedic, that great compendium of information and Enlightenment opinion, had appeared in Paris. The first edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica began appearing in Edinburgh in 1768. The colonists knew and valued these works; indeed, I'Encyclopédie was among the most popular of all the books imported for colonial libraries. Information was instrumental to human happiness; education was meant to serve progress and political stability; and news, after all, was only one category of information...
...Jimmy Hoffa and the Teamsters, stemming from financing he received from the union's "Pension Fund", is reviewed in detail, as are his campaigns of villification against the University of New Hampshire, the Kennedy family, Muskie, McGovern, Eugene McCarthy, ad infinitum. Indeed this biography might serve as a handy compendium for anyone interested in a careful review of the Union Leader's three decades of slander...