Word: encyclopedias
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...happy little band of British Laborites who toured Red China last month got a delayed kick in the pants from their recent hosts. The latest edition of the Reds' Modern Encyclopedia hit the stands. Its strongest venom was saved for recent Peking Guest Aneurin Bevan, farthest left of Britain's top socialists. Nye did not make the grade as a "Foreign Personage" (two who did: party-lining Comedian Charlie Chaplin and Canterbury's Red Dean Hewlett Johnson), but instead was ignominiously lumped with such "Foreign Reactionaries" as his old enemy in the House of Commons, Sir Winston...
...writing his first novel (a story about collectivism in a children's home, from which Koestler now prints excerpts for the first time; it sounds somewhat like The Rover Boys as rewritten by Howard Fast). He also found time, as "Dr. A. Costler." to write a potboiling Encyclopedia of Sexual Knowledge, and to pay some attention to the neurotic women's auxiliaries of the class-war army...
...construction in front of the CRIMSON building is almost complete: The news board has virtually finished its subway to Wellesley, the editorial board has built its bomb-proof encyclopedia shelter, the business board has constructed a surplus-assets vault, and the photo board an automatic sprinkling system...
When Flaubert died in 1880, he left Bouvard and Pecuchet, his "kind of encyclopedia made into a farce," unfinished and unedited. In scope, it was to be Flaubert's masterpiece: a satiric work compounded of his life-long scorn of the bourgeoisie, their morals, their intellectual giddiness, their thoughtless generalizations...
...kind of satire; it deals in particulars. He did not see the middle class or the intellectual activity of his time as generally despicable entities; instead, he ranted at the individual trait, the peculiar trend. It is for this reason that he called his last work, "a kind of encyclopedia made into a farce." He does not damn in a single motion, but piles absurdity upon inanity in the dialogue and thought of his characters. So thorough is his technique that no character-type and no superficial mode of thought escapes his treatment...