Word: tomes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...York's master builder Robert Moses really be worth reading about in a tome far longer than War and Peace? The astonishing answer, in an age when doorstop books have become a plague, is yes-emphatically...
Taken as an adult comic book, The Best can evade critique. Taken seriously, the tome has its disturbing aspects. Participation in the public arena is increasingly ceded to a few: athletes, politicians, performers. But their audience at least retains the ability to judge for itself, to realize that one man's best may be another's worst. Once the power to discriminate is left to others, that audience becomes herd but not seen, a mass to be manipulated. One would do better to choose the second best because it appeals rather than the best because it is dictated...
DURING ONE of the heavier-handed scenes in Wedding in Blood, Stephane Audran, playing the wife of a boorish and corrupt French politician, appears in her town's library to donate a volume on ethics. The librarian, impressed by the tome's weightiness and its complicated-sounding title, accepts the book and remarks, "It must be very difficult." Audran's precocious little daughter, who understands the surface of things better than any adult character, closes this little lesson on ethics by chiming in with her typically mocking tone, "Oh yes, very difficult...
...January. The document presented by Nixon this year is intimidating: it has 1,071 pages, weighs 2½ Ibs. and calls for spending $304.4 billion. Congress now has the power to revise the President's budget completely, but it lacks a centralized staff to analyze such a massive tome. More important, Congress is simply not organized to consider the proposal as a whole-or to perform the essential job of setting goals, weighing priorities, and figuring out where the money is going to be raised to meet specific needs...
...clear plastic sheets on which final animation drawings are made) from a new Disney cartoon, Robin Hood. This migration of Disney's iconography from masscult to the commercial fringes of "high" art (it happened to Norman Rockwell last year) will be prodded along by a 7½-lb. tome entitled The Art of Walt Disney, written by English Art Critic Christopher Finch with the full cooperation of the Disney Archives and published, at $45, by Harry N. Abrams. The text has one defect: it is much too unctuous. Nevertheless the book reveals more clearly than anything written before...