Word: hardbound
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There is money to be made attacking Kennedys, and Lasky knows it. "Go ahead. Get me," he recently goaded a reporter. "Hostile reviews sell books." Although JFK got mostly bad reviews in 1963, it sold, says Lasky, "about a quarter of a million hardbound copies. At $1.20 a copy, you figure...
With a federal grant, the University of Michigan's English Professor Daniel Fader has devised a special English course for Maxey boys. Arguing that "no hardbound text was ever thrust into a boy's hip pocket," he has thrown out such books, replaced them with paperbacks ranging from James Bond to Erich Fromm. When he first arrives at the school, each boy can select two from drugstore-type racks, keep them or exchange them with other boys -and no one tries to keep track of them. Fader also advises constant practice in writing. Boys are encouraged to keep...
...three years he prowled around New York bookstores, buying and reading everything he could find about Lincoln. One day he was on a lecture tour in North Caroline. Although he had left all his notes home Van Doren says "I heard Lincoln talking to me." He took out the hardbound black notebook he always keeps with him and began to write. Within a week the play was virtually complete...