Word: foreword
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sounds and looks evil." But it went down so satisfactorily that Ross got an idea: Dr. Jordan ought to collaborate on a cookbook for ulcer victims. The result, published this week: Good Food for Bad Stomachs (Doubleday; $2.95), by Dr. Jordan and Recipe-Maker Sheila Hibben, with a laudatory foreword by Ross himself...
...they said would never come back alive" and how he "threw himself at the mercy of the Pacific." An adventure, as every adventurer knows, is adventurous only in the retelling; and nothing can be so downright dull as three months on a raft. But after Mr. Grauer's hyperbolic foreword, "Kon-Tiki" luckily avoids the perils-of-the-deep, the yoicks-man-overboard, and the eek-it's-a-man-eating-shark, episodes that seem presaged by the opening. It becomes the tale, always unusual and often rather scientific, of life in a strange new world, where parrots bite radio...
Author Baldwin has tackled a compelling theme, but the bestselling writing habits of a lifetime will not down. In a few final, banal pages, Paul becomes a mature man, a whole minister, and gets his girl besides (Alcoholics Anonymous has straightened out his dipso brother). In a foreword, Author Baldwin hopes that at least "one reader" will experience "pleasure in reading Paul's story." On the record (some 10,000,000 sales of her novels in all editions), she can't miss...
Chivalry in war is a rapidly declining convention, but it dies hardest among what Ernest Bevin has called the "trade union of generals." Field Marshal Auchinleck, in a foreword to the book, salutes Rommel "as a soldier and a man" and deplores the passing of chivalry. Field Marshal Earl Wavell rates him "among the chosen few, among the very brave, the very true." And Biographer Young rather gratuitously remarks that he just can't help liking German generals. His Rommel is well-written, brisk, and touched with flashes of nice humor; in every other respect, it might have been...
...When the final chapter of Joy Street was dispatched," writes Frances Parkinson Keyes in the foreword to her new novel. "... I was too completely exhausted to feel the slightest elation ... I could not believe the ordeal was over; it had become one of those nightmares which apparently has no end, but goes...