Word: adult
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...White Plains, N.Y., the adult education director approved a new course, for women only, on how to watch a baseball game without asking blamefool questions. Also in the course: football, basketball, golf, tennis...
...triumph with the tots could not have been more timely. Like all other publishers, S. & S. was having trouble with adult readers ; they simply weren't buying books on the scale of booming...
...everything from Plato to the Bill of Rights. But he is proudest of the schoolkids he has turned into book lovers-the little Negro girl who read 150 books in one summer; the seventh-grader who produced a letter from his teacher saying he was smart enough to read adult books and then asked for a volume of Toynbee; the 8,000 kids enrolled in his summer reading program. Says Jacobs: "I think a child who reads, who creates new interests, will never be delinquent...
...moments of appealing teen-age humor, but most of it is overcomplicated plot about lovestruck adolescents and their immature parents. The juveniles (Jane Powell, Elizabeth Taylor, Scotty Beckett, Robert Stack) may be forgiven for acting like ambitious hams in a high-school play, but the hardened adult "troupers (Wallace Beery, Leon Ames, Carmen Miranda) also suffer repeated attacks of squirming coyness. Most of the cast, too, is larded over with a fiery red makeup that would look fine on a Connecticut barn. On Technicolored actors it looks terrible...
Only a handful of Parisians read this anemic little book when it first appeared in 1896. Few of them could have thought it likely that its author, a rather foppish and not very likable young social climber, would later devote the bulk of his adult life to composing one of the literary masterpieces of the times: Remembrance of Things Past. Even the most fanatical Proustians will have to grant that Pleasures and Regrets, now translated into English for the first time, is a trivial book. Languid little pseudo-pastoral sketches bedecked with whipped-cream imagery, pallid reflections on life...