"Rarely used words, non-English words, names, obsolete and unidiomatic expressions, phrases: all are thrown in together along with common words without any apparent principle of selection. For example, in the fourth edition of – one of the best of the conceptually arranged works – we find included under the subheading orator: Demosthenes, Cicero, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, William Jennings Bryan. Why not Pericles and Billy Graham? When one starts to include types of things, where does one stop? There is actually a list of insects (paragraph 414.36), which is even more of a random sampling than that of orators. Such works are a potpourri of everything the compiler can think of."
Thesaurus

January 1, 1970

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