Word: journals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...JOURNAL OF BEATRIX POTTER transcribed from her code writing by Leslie Under. 448 pages. Frederick Warne...
...warning aimed at the nation's designers, on the other hand, the trade journal Product Engineering worriedly argues that more and more "blame is being pinned on the design engineer." In theory, engineers have always been vulnerable to negligence claims; in fact, they have rarely been sued because the firms employing them make a more tempting financial target. Even so, the legal situation is fluid enough to give designers ample cause for worry about the future. Main reason: a spate of recent court decisions that have eroded the old doctrine of "privity" while enhancing the new doctrine of "strict...
...Potter books have circled the world, but there are Peter Rabbits in many languages from Latin to Welsh, and the book still sells 40,000 copies annually in the U.S. Now, to mark the centenary of the author's birth, her English publishers have issued the massive private Journal that Beatrix kept from 1881, when she was 15, until...
Jehovah in Granite. Unexpectedly unearthed in 1952, nine years after her death, the manuscript was written in a secret cipher that bright little Beatrix devised herself. The cipher took six years to crack, but Potterites fearful of unsettling revelations in the Journal can relax. What it contains is an always dutiful, occasionally delightful collection of anecdote, travelogue, history and plain gossip. What it shows, in text and illustration, is how Beatrix, bored and desperate in a self-imposed isolation, beat at the bars of her confinement with nothing more than a quill pen and a palette of paints...
...occasionally malicious: "Miss Ellen Terry's complexion is made of such an expensive enamel that she can only afford to wash her face once a fortnight." Prime Minister William Gladstone was "a vain old bird ... I never saw a person so creased . . . that old goose." The Journal breaks off, with Beatrix earnestly pursuing the classification and painting of fungi, three years before the publication of Peter Rabbit. Looking back in later years, she remembered him unsentimentally: "At one time I almost loathed Peter Rabbit, I was so sick of him." She is probably the only one who ever...