Word: experts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Agent Gillis was no expert at first, but he became one by talking to book dealers and poring through Peking's Metropolitan Library. He managed to find one of the three existing complete sets (5,020 volumes) of the 1728 Chinese Encyclopedia. He also sent home a priceless rubbing from the stone text of a Confucian doctrine dated 745 A.D., with a commentary by the Emperor Hsiüan-Tsung; a Tibetan book written in pure gold; a 600 A.D. scroll found in the caves of northwest China with the original hemp wrapper signed by the woman who wove...
...spry, scholarly picture of John Adams in his study is offered by Zoltan Haraszti, curator of the Boston Public Library's rare books section, in John Adams and the Prophets of Progress. Author Haraszti manages to write well up to the expert's mark without writing above the interested layman's head. As it happens, John Adams does most of his writing...
...Cousin Rachel, by Daphne du Maurier. An expert mixture of suspense and romantic hokum, set in the Rebecca country 100 or more years ago (TIME...
Alfred Drake's direction is expert wherever the script allows, and the period set of a combination kitchen-parlor-bedroom by Sam Leve is authentic as well as colorful...
...Cousin Rachel, by Daphne du Maurier. An expert mixture of suspense and romantic hokum, set in the Rebecca country 100 or more years ago (TIME...