Word: monographs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...apparatus has been working overtime to indict the Chinese. Peking's rulers have been accused of everything from planning germ warfare to running the world narcotics trade to assassinating President Kennedy. The polemical tone carries over from the popular press into the theoretical world of scholarship. One recent monograph printed by the Institute of the Far East of the Soviet Academy of Sciences (there is a similar institute devoted to American studies) is called Destinies of Culture in the People's Republic of China. It makes the charge that Peking views the arts as "an ideological tool...
...that Harvard has asked him to return, Petric will take the first semester of next year off(as he originally planned), to complete three books: Cinematic Analysis, a textbook for analyzing film structure; Theory of sound film, about how sound relates to images; and a monograph on Dziga Vertov, a Soviet revolutionary, avant-garde filmmaker of the silent era. He will also publish a recent interview he conducted with Orson Welles, whom Petric considers the greatest American filmmaker (though one who has been neglected...
...book provides the necessary antidote to weekly journalism. It's fun to have space for 100,000 words," says Senior Writer Robert Hughes, who is writing about the colonization of Australia by convicts in the 18th century. Correspondent Neil MacNeil turned to history in a recent monograph, The President's Medal, 1789-1977. For others, contemporary events have provided subjects: Associate Editor David Tinnin's forthcoming I, Terrorist examines the motivations of terrorists; Correspondent James Willwerth's new Badge of Madness is about the breakdown of one New York policeman...
Seeing the term believe so frequently in your article, I was confused as to whether I was reading a theological treatise or a scientific monograph. To throw out the missing-link evolutionary theory and replace it with a more modern concept (based on an archaeological discovery in 1975 and supported by 3 million critical years of missing evidence) is even more ludicrous than to ask a non-Biblicist to believe the Genesis account of creation...
...collection: from David E. Powell, who quit teaching Defense Department seminars largely because senior officers' talk of "nuking the Chinks" offended him; to Vladimir I. Toumanoff '46, the son of Russian nobility and author of the original SALT memorandum; to Gilbert S. Doctorow '67, who says that his present monograph on pre-revolutionary Russia may succeed in "reducing the tarnish" on the tsarist regime...