Word: modernize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Then, a few weeks ago, thanks to modern technology, 1600 incoming sophomores were notified that they would all be housed in Grays Hall this fall. (Actually, some of you are supposed to be living in Grays Hall next year, right above University police headquarters. Think about it.) About 40 phone calls later, Harvard discovered its mistake, and most sighed a breath of relief that they did not have to go through another year in the Yard...
...literally a day for the books. In addition to the Puzo package, Koster was chasing rights to publish works by Franz Kafka. She was outbid by Pocket Books, who paid $210,000. The Prague pension clerk would have been fascinated by the rituals of a modern paperback auction. He had envisioned the adrenal new world in his novel Amerika. But could he have imagined that he would be in six figures...
Such fast action was unheard of 40 years ago when the modern paperback business was born. Potboiler westerns, mysteries and a few novels were sold mainly in drugstores and on newsstands. The 1950s saw the emergence of "trade" or "quality" paperbacks. They were the inexpensive, soft-covered reprints of classics, serious novels and texts that heralded the so-called paperback revolution. Readership climbed steadily with the growth of the college-educated population. Last year's industry figures indicate that more than 530 million paperbacks were sold, between 60% and 80% bought by women mainly...
...overheard Puzo telling Mafia yarns and offered a $5,000 advance for a book about the Italian underworld. The rest is publishing history?and American sociology. Puzo's saga of blood and money, treachery and revenge, class injury and ferocious pride, is one of the most gripping stories in modern popular fiction. Despite its cast of venal monsters and hired killers, The Godfather offered a nostalgic view of the embattled family defending and enriching itself in a ruthless world. Don Corleone even became a Pop father figure?a fascinating inversion of Walter Cronkite?whose distinctively throttled voice conveyed authority, sincerity...
...modern welfare state is a monument to man's flight from risk. Yet even its considerable list of assurances-against unemployment, disability, blindness, lost bank funds, starvation-amounts to only a fraction of the protections available to Americans. Courts in California have held not only barkeeps but party hosts liable for injuries caused by drunken customers or guests. In the light of an abundance of other social cautions, one can almost imagine that the Oklahoma legislator was serious in proposing the bill, happily defeated last winter, that would have required a woman to obtain a written agreement...