Word: encyclopedists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...extra room for his ilbrary, "from which I formed an indifferent opinion of his taste and judgment." In France, Rush saw Louis XV, who "had a good eye, and an intelligent countenance, and hence he was said to be "the most sensible looking fool in Europe.' " The great Encyclopedist, Diderot, entertained Rush in his library, and the Marquis of Mirabeau invited him to a "coterie" at his home...
...answer was that George Stimpson was less a journalist than an encyclopedist who loved facts for their own sakes. He never learned the difference between a big fact and a little one; his head and his dim little office in the National Press Building were overstuffed with trivia. (His "A" file was crowded with items like "a in Thomas a Becket," and "Addison Sims of Seattle.") His cluttered, rolltop desk was buried under facts, but barren of news. He had a scholar's knowledge of Shakespeare, history and cats. Once he went to Europe just to track down elusive...
Strunsky's column shows many a mark of his early training as an encyclopedist. Unlike the big "name" columnists, he approaches his job as some leisurely, penetrating small-town editors do, with no particular regard for column continuity. In seven columns last week, for example, he discussed the teaching of American history, John Hancock, nationalism, the value of keeping a diary, Ethan Allen, U.S. foreign policy, the liberation of France, colored book bindings, Jay Gould, feuding in Washington agencies, soap operas, the absence of advertising in French newspapers, George Washington, Russ Columbo's mother, pronunciations, Nazi fanatics...
...Sweet Encyclopedist. Jimmy is probably the hardest-working millionaire extant. He eats little (two raw eggs for breakfast), sleeps little (about five hours), reads widely (keeps an encyclopedia in the bathroom). Jackson and Roth never leave him alone; all three continually fuss over each other's colds, headaches. Jimmy goes to the cemetery every Sunday-in New York, to visit his father's grave; in Holly wood, to decorate his wife...
...some years the identity of the author of Topics of The Times was a matter for speculation; usually he is Simeon Strunsky, 63-year-old editor, essayist, ex-encyclopedist (New International...