Word: adults
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sunday book section Novelist Elizabeth Janeway praised Lolita at length ("One of the funniest and one of the saddest books that will be published this year"), but in a daily Times review, Orville Prescott contradicted her: "There are two equally serious reasons why it isn't worth any adult reader's attention. The first is that it is dull, dull, dull . . . The second is that it is repulsive...
...lique, already a U.S. bestseller, is an enormous fairy tale for adult children, of whom there are legions. The French eagerly took to Angélique as a serial in France-Soir. It ran for more than a year, time enough to catch a breath between one night's adventure and the next. The reader of the 890-page U.S. translation must pace himself, and should be warned that the author is one up on him from the beginning. Novelist "Sergeanne" Colon is not one person but two-an apparently indefatigable French man-and-wife team (Serge and Anne...
Worst plague of Florida cattle is a large bluish fly called the screwworm. The adult female lays eggs on wounds or scratches! and the eggs hatch into maggots that literally eat the victim alive. Screwworm maggots can kill a full-grown steer in less than ten days. But last week, with the enthusiastic approval of cattlemen, planes were scattering millions of live screwworm flies over Florida rangelands...
When the TV bunkhouse got so crowded last year, everybody reckoned somebody would have to go. Yet after the usual summer cleaning, none of last season's wagonload of "adult westerns" had moved on, leaving 21 oldtimers right where they were, and for two of them-Gunsmoke, Have Gun, Will Travel-that means a cushy rating spot on the top of the Nielsen Rating's top ten. TV producers recognize a mother lode when they see one, and they have moved with mule-skinner determination to pile it even higher: by last week a nerve-shattering total...
...with 70 armed cops and barged into the larger of the two houses gun in hand, ready for anything. Not even Ibanez was prepared for what he saw. Flanked by a Red star bearing the hammer and sickle, a tall, mustachioed teacher was holding class for some two dozen adult students. Ibanñez had stumbled onto the "Aurora" college-an international center for training Communist propagandists...