Word: documentation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...document guaranteed to jolt even jaded upperclassmen is old stuff to every Radcliffe girl. It's a small, red, non-profit booklet issued once a year to every Annex student, and the title page keynotes the book. From top to bottom, it reads: "The Red Book, Student's Handbook of Radcliffe College," and "Each student is held responsible for all information contained herein...
Died. Dr. Ruth Fulton Benedict, 61, Columbia professor of anthropology; of coronary thrombosis; in Manhattan. A poetess who first took up anthropology as a hobby, Dr. Benedict wrote her monumental Patterns of Culture to document her theory that whole societies behave like human personalities. When she co-authored The Races of Mankind in 1943 to refute the Nazi master-race doctrine, a House committee found her statements on racial equality "controversial," banned the book from Army distribution...
...read, however, as a social document, The Pleasures of the Jazz Age has the same kind of interest as a report on mating customs of ancient Egyptians. Here the reader can find such characteristic creatures of the jazz age as the hot & cold flapper ("There were two kinds of men, those you played with and those you might marry") described in the elegant, slightly elegiac prose of F. Scott Fitzgerald; the frat boys going through their rituals as if life itself depended on them ("every night a freshman stood on the roof of the Nu Delta house and announced...
Roll Back the Sea never quite becomes either a dramatic novel or an authoritative document, though it has some of the quality of both. The characterizations of the engineers and contractors and dike workers are not in themselves of sufficient interest to carry the story, and the depersonalized project, impressive as an example of courage and tenacity, turned out in detail to be just hard work. But some of the processes of the water workers-especially the fascine workers, who lace brushwood mattresses to be spread like skin on the ocean floor, to prevent the channels from deepening-make absorbing...
This vague, sweeping document has given Japanese editors the willies. Among its provisions: 1) stories must adhere strictly to truth (and only the Army knows what that is) and make no destructive criticism of the Allies; 2) there must be no editorializing or propaganda. Most big Japanese papers issued secret monthly guidebooks to keep their staffs posted on the changing interpretations and taboos of the touchy U.S. censors. Sample advice: don't say that U.S. newsmen chewed gum at the opening of the Diet (they did, but the press must not present such an "unfavorable" picture of the occupation...