Word: monographs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pained, Job-like figure regarded in a comic light, as if, between losses, he is playing God's fool. It is a difficult role. Harvey Gotham is a wealthy scholar-dilettante who retires to rural France in his mid-30s. There he occupies himself with a monograph on the riddle of universal suffering: If the Lord is beneficent, why does his earth contain so much misery? On the bestseller list that conundrum is called When Bad Things Happen to Good People. Here it is entitled The Only Problem...
...problem of The Problem lies in these twinkling asides. They not only provide the book's entertainment, they constitute its substance. The restoration of Harvey's fortunes, his adoption of Clara, his new romance and the completion of the monograph are rushed onstage in the final scenes, as if to emphasize the ironic conclusion: Job's "tragedy was that of the happy ending." That sort of throwaway irony seems worthier of an Oscar Wilde epigram than a meditation on a profound theme. The Book of Job has haunted writings as disparate as Mark Twain's novel...
Mayr has in the past worked closely with the Linnaean Society, and recently initiated a seminar program there to introduce aspiring ornithologists to the current ornithological literature, Mayr said. He also helped the society to publish an important monograph on the song sparrow...
...falsely state that "Lefever's think tank accepted at least $25,000 from the Nestlé company after commissioning a study that turned out to support Nestlé's marketing of infant formula in developing countries." There is no such study. Although I agreed to write a monograph for Lefever. I have not done the study nor have I received a penny...