Word: encyclopedias
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Abdullah al Salim al Sabah, a tall, heavy man of about 58, has a reputation as something of a scholar. Awed subjects say he has read through the encyclopedia from A to Z; currently he is writing a history of Kuwait. He is a kindly, gentle man, with a low, musical voice which he seldom raises. Every Friday he takes off on a cruise in his well-fitted dhow, accompanied by officials from K.O.C. and local American and British diplomats. He relaxes and invites his foreign friends to air their problems. There is nothing about him of the autocratic...
...engineering career gave him something more valuable than money. He gathered a knowledge of Canadian economics that few native-born citizens could match. He became "a walking Who's Who, encyclopedia and atlas of Canada's businessmen, production problems and geographic situations...
Thumbing through the first volumes of the big new encyclopedia one evening at the Trianon, France's King Louis XV showed frank bewilderment. His ministers had told him that the work was subversive, and the King had duly ordered its confiscation. But-as Voltaire tells the story-the King read all about the rights of the crown and promptly began to question his own decision. "Upon my word," cried His Majesty to Madame de Pompadour, "I can't tell why they spoke so ill of this book...
Education is toying with the idea of backing a film based on Diderot's life. The ministry has also decreed that schools must place special emphasis on the encyclopedia in 1952. Cried Minister Andre Marie: "This work, by the spirit in which it was undertaken . . . marks the turning point in ideas which ushered in our modern times...
Intolerance & Anagrams. The ushering began in 1745, when a Paris printer named André François Le Breton hired the impecunious Diderot to work on a modest two-volume encyclopedia. Diderot soon expanded the project, decided to "assemble the knowledge scattered over the surface of the earth . . ." Before he was through, he had persuaded some of the best brains in Europe to help...