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...book is obviously aimed at a broader market than the one now domnated by the five-year-old Webster's Third New Interna tional Dictionary, which sells for $47.50, the 13-volume Oxford English Dictionary, which was last updated in 1933 and costs $300, and the $47.50 Funk & Wagnalls New Standard Dictionary of the English Language, mainly unchanged since 1913. Random House has a bigger, cleaner type face, includes names of notable places and people in its regular alphabetical word list, throws in such usable extras as a 64-page world atlas and a list of major dates. Most...
There is a striking difference between this state of affairs and the one which prevailed last November, when one of the brighter students in the Physics Department announced that he had been classified 1-A. The University went into a mild funk and then helped the unfortunate organize an appeal. It was successful, and he graduated summa. Time and time again during the late fall and early winter Harvard performed the same service, while in Washington the prime university lobby, the American Council of Education, implored the Selective Service to provide the nation's 4061 local draft boards with selection...
HORACE SILVER has led a successful quintet for ten years now, featuring his own melodic but hard-driving piano and compositions both bright and Silvery blue. The title piece of his Cape Verdean Blues (Blue Note) is a spunky bit of funk with a samba beat. In Nutville, Bonita and Mo' Jo, Veteran Trombonist J. J. Johnson adds a third horn to the trumpet and sax of the mellow, swinging combo...
...much bluer the Danube is on their side of the Iron Curtain. Making the most of their fears, Klaus's campaign posters thunder about "the proof in black and white of the Red Volksfront menace." For good measure, some campaign managers have spread the news by Mund'funk (word of mouth) that the two Red parties are planning a putsch...
...urban life as a journalist in Manhattan, Russell headed north on the scent of some wave-swept map specks off Newfoundland's and Nov Scotia's stern coasts. Among them were Hay Island, periodically exposed to it roots by the incredible fall of the Fundy tide, and Funk Island, on whose granite crest the great auk passed into extinction. Russell effectively translates for nonislomanes the mystical tug of the secret places offshore, "priceless monuments of primeval earth...