Word: encyclopedias
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Worth spent two months comparing his books with the game and concluded that the authors cribbed heavily from his Complete Unabridged Super Trivia Encyclopedia of 1978 and its sequel of 1981. He alleges that the Genus edition is 33% his work and the Silver Screen version 22%. Worth says the authors often filched his exact wording, even picking up his mistakes. Chris Haney, one of the game's three authors, claims that dozens of people have sued them. Says he: "A guy in Ireland claims he invented the game ten years ago." Trivia fans this year are expected...
Before Barr, the idea of dedicating a whole museum to modernism as a culture, embracing design, photography, architecture and film, as well as painting and sculpture, had not emerged. At its origins, MOMA was intended as a constantly unfolding encyclopedia of the new. No institution can remain on that kind of cutting edge forever, and by the 1970s MOMA was muffled in its own success. All its departments had well-funded rivals in museums across the country. By 1980 modern art was an industry, involving hundreds of thousands of people. In the face of such expansion, MOMA became more preoccupied...
...truly tragic figure, since he was not observed to fall from the great heights demanded of such characters by the laws of Aristotelian aesthetics. From the beginning, Miller told TIME Reporter Elaine Dutka, he had seen the play as two seemingly different entities. One was "a veritable encyclopedia of information about the man," which would permit actors and audiences alike to find their own sense of what moved him. The other was a kind of free-form poem, highly condensed emotionally and verbally, "a concentration through some kind of lens of my whole awareness of life up to that point...
...world's largest aggregation of Buddhists scriptures, assembled by Tibetan and Mongolian monks. The curator of the Yenching rare books collection, Sydney Tai, says he would be willing to show visitors treasures as old as the 7th century Sung Dynasty or as capacious as a 10,000 volume rare encyclopedia of Chinese history. This collection owns certain artifacts that even the people of China do not possess, according to Tai. There's only one hitch: almost all the scrolls and manuscripts are printed in Asian languages...
There is relatively little to support such a judgment. The evidence most often cited is an article by Marshal Nikolai Ogarkov, chief of staff of the Soviet armed forces, in the 1980 edition of the Soviet Military Encyclopedia. "If a nuclear war is foisted upon the Soviet Union," wrote Ogarkov, the Soviets "will have definite advantages stemming from the just goals of the war and the advanced nature of their social and state system." This, he concluded, "creates objective possibilities for them to achieve victory...