Word: overviews
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...maps were drawn on the spot by members of the British corps of engineers, and they have never before been collected in a popular book. By themselves they would be worth the price of the book. But the Atlas also is adorned with handsome pictures and a fine overview text about the source, course and conclusion of the war by Don Higginbotham, the author of The War of American Independence, one of the best histories of the fighting yet written...
...root of the problem is a question of semantics. Friedrich doesn't want to be tied down to limiting definitions of madness--he seeks an "overview" of some sort--so he tosses out a few words like "crazy" and "insane" and leaves it to us to sort out his verbal juggling. His explanation of this is a kind of catch-all empiricism, with a few arbitrary criteria tacked...
...crazy, in comparison to previous societies? Or to characterize the process, today as well as then? Or to delineate the peculiarities of twentieth-century madness? Each endeavor requires a frame of reference; but since he has no definitions, he can have no conclusions. The only possible meaning his unlimited overview can give us is an Alice in Wonderland rule of revolving logic: that the irrationality of madness is such that it can never really be defined or predicted, like an enfant terrible who out of whim kicks down any castle of philosophical building blocks that the inquirer might care...
...view of the world, the family history and tawdry yet mysterious American middle- or working-class culture. These themes hold small clumps of otherwise disparate poems together while Sagan is trying out styles of writing. They provide, at least, a way of fitting her work together which makes the overview possible in a collection more satisfying than a chance encounter with her verse in, say, Mademoiselle, Samisdat magazine or The Harvard Advocate (where 11 of this selection of 16 poems have already appeared...
...John Hancock Awards special citation to Associate Editor James Grant for his overview of world inflation, "Seeking Antidotes to a Global Plague" (April...