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...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...
...Literary Detective Vincent traces Melville's track, Melville thumbed through a compendium of sea catastrophes (given him by Hawthorne) and recalled the Essex disaster of 1820, in which a whaling ship had been sunk by a giant sperm whale in the Pacific. One report credited the tragedy to the whale "Mocha Dick," a white killer roaming murderously through the legends...
...view of our figures on the average TIME-reading man, many of you have asked about the average TIME-reading woman. A compendium of her life and works will be ready next week...