Word: compendium
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...Europe's Enlightenment was in full vigor; Denis Diderot's French Encyclopedic had just come out, and Britain was ripe for an up-to-date compendium of all knowledge. The Britannica's founders were Colin Macfarquhar, a small-business man of Edinburgh, and Andrew Bell, an engraver of dog collars, who stood 4½ ft. tall, and had a nose so embarrassingly big that he used to mock his mockers with an even larger one of papier-mache. Smellie, their 28-year-old choice for editor, spieled long Latin poems when drunk, and was celebrated...
...fitting climax to a compendium of festivities at once serious and light-hearted, the confetti battle symbolized the perpetual struggle between the young and the old. Alumni, clad in outrageous costumes, staging pranks reminiscent of their undergraduate days, debunking the pious and scorning treasured icons, would assault members of the senior class with streamers, confetti, and any piece of available rubbish...
Filmed in muddy and grotesque Magicolor, Carnival is a souped-up Drumbeats and Song, a compendium of vaudeville acts which somehow escaped the hook. But it's funny, thanks to the fine singing of the Shmeliov Sisters (who recorded "Rose of the Urals," last year's top song hit) and the inspired performance of Eddie Rosner's jazz band. Unfortunately, Y. and V. Gusakov, well-known dancers who starred most recently in N. Khrushchev's "New Faces of 1958," failed to live up to critics' expectations...
...native England, Playwright-Actor-Director Peter Alexander Ustinov did so little TV that one critic mourned: "Genius is going to waste. That multitalented marvel, that compendium of comedy, has no sense of his duty to mankind-especially the part that watches TV." Luckily for viewers across the Atlantic, peripatetic Peter Ustinov is busting out all over U.S. television...
...largely rests. Less known but of no less importance was Georges Seurat, born in 1859, who made it his goal to weld science and art into a technique of dot, dab and stitch strokes that would not only challenge the glowing canvases of the impressionists but be a compendium of what was known in his day of optics, color and psychology...