Word: manuscript
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...agents let it be known that, alas, the typefaces did not match, although they had high hopes for a third typewriter, discovered later. What they did not mention was that nestled next to that third machine in Kaczynski's loft was something that made lesser discoveries moot: a manuscript of the manifesto itself...
Hence their satisfaction about what turned up in the cabin, even before the manuscript surfaced. In addition to the bombmaking notes and paraphernalia and the half-made bomb they found immediately, agents soon encountered a finished product: they had to delay the search while they defused it. Its structural peculiarities, experts said, were exactly those of the Unabomber bombs. The searchers also discovered a piece of paper with the words "hit list" written above "airline industry," "computer industry" and "geneticists." Evidence from the cabin was so strong, federal officials said, that it might convict Kaczynski without having to match...
...first U.S. publisher to yank a controversial book off its list. In the most celebrated recent instance, Simon & Schuster decided in 1990 not to release Bret Easton Ellis' novel American Psycho after advance reviewers complained about its voyeuristic scenes of women being tortured. (Knopf later bought the discarded manuscript and published it in paperback.) But the St. Martin's case is more complex because it involves a work of nonfiction rather than a question of artistic license. Should publishers vouch for the accuracy of their books...
Irving gave St. Martin's a manuscript ostensibly crammed with facts, based on 75,000 pages of Joseph Goebbels' previously undiscovered private diaries. No editor could be expected to double-check all this stuff, but a third-grader should have noticed that Irving had done some tricky things with it. First of all, his emerging thesis is that the occasional lapses of the Third Reich can be blamed on Goebbels rather than on Hitler. "Hitler doesn't want to hurt anybody," Irving quotes Goebbels as writing. Maybe he wrote this, but why should anyone, starting with Irving, believe...
...editor and political columnist at London's Sunday Telegraph. As evidence of the fragments' early origins, Thiede notes that the handwriting on the Magdalen Papyrus is in a style known as uncial, which began to die out in the middle of the 1st century. A second clue to the manuscript's origins is its format. The three fragments are from a codex, a primitive kind of book in which writing is found on both sides of the papyrus. (On a scroll, by contrast, only one side is used.) Contrary to the views of most biblical scholars, Thiede argues that codices...