Word: tome
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sanctuary. In Norman, Okla., 29 copies of a tome entitled Our National Forests were removed from the University of Oklahoma library after being thoroughly nibbled by termites...
...Indeed I was not looking for one." Last week, as if to drive Nikita's point home, Moscow published the fattest statistical yearbook in Soviet history, a 958-page tome filled with figures carefully chosen to indicate that Russia is far closer to outstripping the West than many an Uzbek peasant might think. For one thing, assert Russia's statisticians, Russia is producing more people than the U.S. Russia's birth rate, according to the yearbook, was 25.3 per thousand in 1958 v. a mere 24.3 per thousand for the U.S., and only 7.2 Russians per thousand...
...camera marks the most important advance in the technology of eavesdropping since the invention of the keyhole. The prying eye can now record what it sees, and gossip has become a visual as well as a verbal art. This is vividly apparent in Observations, a sort of peeping tome in which Photographer Richard Avedon's pictures are discussed by Author Truman Capote. Unfortunately, Capote writes in a style that combines the worst features of Henry James, Dorothy Kilgallen, and deb talk (says he of Marilyn Monroe: "Just a slob really: an untidy divinity-in the sense that a banana...
...pages of the 4 lb. 4 oz. tome sent to Capitol Hill this week lay one of the major achievements of the Eisenhower Administration: a budget offering a small surplus (est. $70 million) for the fiscal year that begins next July 1. But almost overlooked in the light of that achievement was another fact: the fiscal 1960 budget, despite its balance, is also the largest in U.S. peacetime history...
What happened in New Haven was typical of what has been happening in several U.S. academic centers since June, when a massive (445 pp.) tome appeared under the title Existence: A New Dimension in Psychiatry and Psychology (Basic Books; $7.50). Rollo May is chief editor, and sums up the origins and distinctive features of existential psychotherapy. Sales are now around the 12,000 mark and continuing briskly. In September came Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy (Doubleday; $5), by New York University's Professor William Barrett-the most lucid exposition of the subject yet to appear in English...