Word: tome
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...late 1930s, with the advent of the unmelodic twelve-tone school of Arnold Schoenberg, Ansermet saw darkness. Atonality, he declared, was not music. Drawing on his early background as a mathematics teacher, Ansermet published a complex tome that sought to prove "by mathematical formulas that the strict twelve-tone system is entirely opposed to the laws of hearing...
...Joyce sighed after wading through her husband's Ulysses: "I guess the man's a genius, but what a dirty mind he has, surely!" Indeed, James Joyce did have a lot of perdition swimming about in his head, much of which he poured into his great wild tome on Leopold Bloom's odyssey through Dublin on the day and night of June 16, 1904. James and his mind were laid to rest in Zurich's Fluntern Cemetery in 1941, the grave distinguished only by a small headstone. For years Manhattan Art Dealer Lee Nordness had thought...
Critic Edmund ("Bunny") Wilson, 71, hates the U.S. income tax, as he proclaimed three years ago in a cranky little tome entitled The Cold War and the Income Tax-a spate of essays prompted by the fact that the Internal Revenue Service found him some $69,000 in arrears and fined him another $7,500 for rather flagrantly failing to file any income tax returns from 1946 to 1955. The matter still rankles-so much so that when the National Book Committee presented him with the 1966 National Medal for Literature and a $5,000 prize, he was still dodging...
What is all this-a cautionary tale about the dangers of sedation or just one more peeping tome about show business? Certainly the latter, though it was written by a TV actress, Jacqueline Susann, who insists that the book is practically a kinescope of show-business life as she has seen it lived. If so, it would seem that Author Susann has spent most of her time watching people swallow Seconal, slurp Scotch and commit sodomy. Somebody does one or the other on almost every page, and a large crowd has gathered to watch the exhibition. Dolls is firmly established...
...that the public was willing to sit through two hours and forty-five minutes of a dramatized Eight Little Vassar Graduates and How They Grew, Hollywood went ahead. The surprise ending to this familiar pattern is that they've not only turned out a faithful rendering of that interesting tome, but have in fact surpassed it. The Group is the Hollywood story in reverse: it would have been far better to have seen the movie, then read the book...