When Dr Nicholls wrote to The Spectator in 1989 asking for names of people whom readers had looked up in the DNB and had been disappointed not to find, she says that she received some 100,000 suggestions. (Well, she had written to" other quality newspapers" too.)As soon as her committee had whittled the numbers down, the professional problems of an editor began. Contributors didn't file copy on time; some who did send too much: 50,000 words instead of 500 is a record, according to Dr Nieholls.
There remains the dinner-party game of who’s in, who’s out. That is a game that the reviewers have played and will continue to play. Criminals were my initial worry. After all, the original edition of the DNB boasted: Malefactors whose crimes excite a permanent interest have received hardly less attention than benefactors. Mr. John Gross clearly had similar anxieties, for he complains that, while the murderer Christie is in, Crippen is out. One might say in reply that the injustice of the hanging of Evans instead of Christie was a force in the repeal of capital punishment in Britain, as Ludovie Kennedy (the author of Christies entry in Missing Persons) notes. But then Crippen was reputed as the first murderer to be caught by telegraphy (he had tried to escape by ship to America).
It is surprising to find Max Miller excluded when really not very memorable names get in. There has been. a conscious effort to put in artists and architects from the Middle Ages. About their lives not much is always known.
Of Hugo of Bury St Edmunds, a 12th-century illuminator whose dates of birth and death are not recorded, his biographer comments:" Whether or not Hugo was a wall-painter, the records of his activities as carver and manuscript. painter attest to his versatility." Then there had to be more women, too (12 per cent, against the original DBN’s 3), such as Roy Strong’s subject, the Tudor painter Levina Teerlinc, of whom he remarks:" Her most characteristic feature is a head attached to a too small, spindly body. Her technique remained awkward, thin and often cursory." Doesn't seem to qualify her as a memorable artist. Yet it may be better than the record of the original DNB, which included lives of people who never existed (such as Merlin) and even managed to give thanks to J. W. Clerke as a contributor, though, as a later edition admits in a shamefaced footnote," except for the entry in the List of Contributors there is no trace of J. W. Clerke".
The writer suggests that there is no sense in buying the latest volume ______.
A.because it is not worth the price.
B.because it has fewer entries than before.
C.unless one has all the volumes in his collection.
D.unless an expanded DNB will come out shortly.
第1题
鸡血藤髓部的特点是
A.中央髓部较大
B.中央髓部较小
C.髓部较大,偏向一侧
D.髓部较小,偏向一侧
E.髓部不明显
第2题
鸡血藤髓部的特点是
A.中央髓部较大
B.中央髓部较小
C.髓部较大,偏向一侧
D.髓部小形,偏向一侧
E.髓部不明显
第3题
药材鸡血藤髓部的特点是
A、髓部不明显
B、中央髓部较圆而小
C、髓小,偏向一侧
D、髓部呈扁条状
E、中央髓部较大
第5题
鸡血藤药材横切片髓部特点是
A.髓部不明显,呈红色
B.中央髓部较圆而大
C.髓小,偏向一侧
D.髓部呈长条状
E.中央髓部较大
第9题
鸡血藤横切面的特征之一是
A.无髓
B.髓部大位于中央
C.髓部小而偏于一侧
D.木部有红褐色分泌物
E.皮部黄白色
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