Word: encyclopedias
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...result, published in a fact-crammed, 1,010-page volume by Oxford University Press, is nothing less than a tour of considerable force: the World Christian Encyclopedia. Although the bulk of Barrett's information concerns Christianity, it also provides a rich assortment of data on all of the world's great faiths. It has LIFE magazine-size pages, endless charts and graphs, numerous illustrations and enough credibility in its facts, conclusions and methodology to make it a bench mark in our understanding of the true religious state of the planet. Even for as zealous a researcher as Barrett...
...that ecclesiastics began to visit Barrett's modest, cluttered offices in Nairobi for years before completion to find out how the numbers were running. A few men of God could not resist the temptation to filch advance copies. Now that it has been officially published, the World Christian Encyclopedia, even at the retail price of $74.50, will seem to many people concerned with the state of the world's religions like a real steal...
...latest press conference, Reagan made fewer errors than usual. He glanced at notes (a crutch that must have bothered an actor good at remembering his lines). But as he says himself: "I have never claimed to be a whiz kid, a robot, a bionic adding machine or a walking encyclopedia...
...least a quarter of every college curriculum should consist of small seminars in which the "Great Books" are discussed, Mortimer J. Adler, chairman of the Board of Editors of Encyclopedia Britannica and an authority on innovative teaching techniques, said yesterday at the opening of a Britannica publications display at the Coop...
When C.P. Snow was an eight-year-old in the drab Midlands city of Leicester, he read about the atom in a children's encyclopedia. An atom, the credulous lad was told, resembles the ulterior of a cathedral, in which tennis balls-the electrons-bounce about violently. This fanciful account gave the factory clerk's son "the first sharp mental excitement I ever had." He never quite got over...