Word: encyclopaedia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Encyclopaedia Britannica...
Small wonder. Besides having poured out a lifetime total of 40 books, Adler sits as chairman of the board of editors of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, runs his own institute and promotes Britannica's Great Books program (about 250,000 copies sold since 1952), which he conceived and for which he churned out a 1 million-word index in 26 months. Sighs Theodore Sizer, 54, chairman of Brown University's department of education: "If I have that much energy and optimism when I'm his age, I'll be a lucky person...
Bertagna manages to transform 250-odd pages of encyclopaedia material into attention-grabbing vignettes. Nonetheless, a few questions peek through the pervading glow...
Writing is not the half of what the unquenchable Adler, 82, manages to do. A former professor of the philosophy of law at the University of Chicago, he recently completed a worldwide junket to promote the Encyclopaedia Britannica, of which he is editorial board chairman. He was a founder of Britannica's 54- volume Great Books of the Western World, and personally wrote every one of the 5,000- to 10,000-word essays defining the 102 Great Ideas that constitute the heart of a prodigious index to the Great Books. In addition, he started and still directs the Institute...
...their reference books. For the past two years, World Book has tested an electronic encyclopedia on CompuServe, another computerized information service, but stopped offering it last month. The company says that the electronic version was not equal to the printed one because it was not illustrated. Since 1981 Encyclopaedia Britannica has been experimenting with a computerized version on Mead Data Central's Nexis system. But Mead's service is aimed at businesses and lawyers rather than schools and families...