Word: supplementals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...case Gridley observed the "greatest of literary hoaxes," a brochure for the sale of the library of the Comte de Fortsas, 1840. Across the room was a "bibliography of the works of Sylvester Marmaduke (celebrated Aleutian Islands poet) (Vancouver, 1943?)." Next to this, Gridley noticed, was a mimeographed supplement to the British Museum's Bulletin of Printed Books. It mentioned the acquisition of the unique volume published in 1455, Asellus Hinnibundus (Whinnying Ass). Asellus begins with the words: "In hoc libro non continentur quae expectares, candide lector" (You won't find what you expect in this book, shining reader...
...from one thing to another. The four of us" (Miller's collaboraters in Beyond the Fringe are three contemporaries named Alan Bennett, Peter Cook, and Dudley Moore) "had never met before we started. We were all brought to Edinburgh by a promoter to start a show that would supplement the so-called 'fringe' parts of the Festival there--the theatrical offerings...
Peaceful Explosions. If the darkest fears of 20 years ago have not been realized, neither have the highest hopes. Sunday-supplement visions of impending universal plenty, with nuclear reactors supplying unlimited cheap power, were grossly premature. Nuclear reactors still cannot produce electric power as cheaply as thermoelectric plants fueled with coal or oil. But mankind has received a huge, unforeseen bonus from the radioisotopes created in nuclear reactors. They are used in countless applications in industry and science, from detecting tiny, hidden flaws in machinery parts to tracing physiological processes in the human body...
...decision had come after three weeks of controversy following the printing of an article written by Mitcham in the Gadfly, a weekly opinion supplement to the Daily, on Sept. 21. Commenting on United States polities, Mitcham, a philosophy major, had attacked Sen. Barry Goldwater as a "fool, a mountebank, a murderer, no better than a common criminal...
Wait Till Supine. Such "analysis" can be done by mail, but some testers supplement it with "depth" interviews lasting an hour or more. The chief psychologist for the "management engineering" firm of Stevenson, Jordan & Harrison told Gross that "we set up a sort of doctor-patient relationship to put employees at their ease. I try to make the man feel as much at home as possible.'' A testing psychologist at George Fry said: "I wait until I have him almost supine. After that, he reveals himself quickly and I learn a great deal about the man." The Hippocratic...