Word: monograph
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ranged from classic perfection to near chaos, without once mislaying the sureness in execution and the vitality which are his only consistent characteristics. That half-century was summed up by scholarly Alfred H. Barr Jr., research director of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, in a comprehensively illustrated monograph out last week (Picasso, 50 Years of His Art; $6). Its 330 pictures were the work of a restless giant in a restless era, who constantly invented new worlds to conquer, then tired of them...
...bohemians," no kin to famed Railroad Manipulator Jason (Jay) Gould, announced that his uncompleted Oral History of Our Times, now eleven times longer than the Bible, will be ready for publication when the world, "which is now only 20 years behind me, catches up." Now at work on a monograph entitled Why Princeton Should Be Abolished, Harvardman Gould explained: "Most present-day publishers are illiterate and also from Princeton...
Freud then held the rank of "professor extraordinary" of neurology, but had turned his back on orthodox research channels ("his monograph on the coca-plant gave the first indication of its wide possibilities as an anesthetic") for pioneer psychological theorizing which rarely drew more than a dozen listeners to his weekly lectures at the General Hospital...
...contains a couple of errors. You say Professor Robert Hutchings Goddard (see cut) is "no astronaut." TIME'S reporter evidently has not read Goddard's classical paper on rockets, A Method of Reaching Extreme, Altitudes, published' in 1919 by the Smithsonian Institution. This is the monograph that reopened rocket experimentation, and really started the modern era of rocket research. In it Goddard not only showed how to reach "high altitudes" theoretically, but also gave considerable space to ways of reaching the moon, and gave the results of some experiments he had made to send some flash powder...
...born Erwin Panofsky, of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, N.J. The book is Albrecht Dürer (Princeton University Press; $20), a two-volume analytical study of Germany's great post-medieval engraver, painter, art theorist. It is the most useful and enlightening Dürer monograph yet to appear...