Word: manuscripts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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More detailed study of space-age jargon would be beneficial, McNeill feels, and his report must be considered only preliminary. "But we can conclude," he says, "that the following statement is probably true: Space-speak is an engineering technology concept expression manuscript sentence grammar device...
...Ireland's Malahide Castle, at intervals between 1925 and 1941, Boswell's descendants discovered a vast mass of manuscript stacked in a hideous old ebony cabinet, in the moldy loft of a barn, in an ancient croquet box. It was the literary find of the century: thousands of Boswell's letters, notes for the Life and drafts of it in his own hand, above all the manuscript of his masterpiece-the voluminous journal he kept for 35 years. Published in seven installments between 1950 and 1963, the Journal (which sold 2,500,000 copies) dramatically transformed...
...edition of the Koran at his own expense ($250,000 so far). Using a previously unreproduced 16th century version by Calligrapher Ahmed Neirizi, 40 experts spent a year re-checking every word; then the Shah announced that the first 3,000 copies of the ornately beautiful manuscript were ready and that a copy would be sent to just about every Moslem ruler, except Nasser...
...family, were captured, tried and executed. Capote, who called the book a "nonfiction novel," spent six years on it, from shortly after the murder in 1959 to shortly after their hanging in 1965. He had countless hours with the killers in prison, became their intimate friend, showed them the manuscript of the book. They talked to him so frankly and freely that some readers feel Capote exploited them for his own personal triumph...
...abrupt, resonant dialogue that forms the midsection of Bradstreet, Berryman was influenced by Anna Karenina and by Saul Bellow's novel Augie March, which he had just read in manuscript: "very ambitious, totally unlike most modern novels. It threw me the feeling that if I appeared to go outside the ordinary sort of business, that would be all right." The absence of any clear poetic precedent forces the reader to make a major revision of his conventional expectations...