Word: paperbacked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...small short-wave radio for picking up the BBC or Radio Free Europe (the only English-language sources of non-Party-lining news) and an assortment of gifts. Tipping is officially not allowed, and many Russians are insulted by the offer of money. But Intourist guides gratefully accept paperback editions of Hemingway, Faulkner and Salinger, jazz records, makeup, ballpoint pens and chewing...
...colonel in command of the first slave regiment mustered into the service of the United States. Among his extensive literary output was an account of his Civil War experiences and observations, Army Life in a Black Regiment, a magnificent classic that was recently reprinted in paperback; and he was the first to encourage Emily Dickinson, whose poetry he eventually edited...
...presses are growing in professionalism -and popularity. Last year the 67 members of the Association of American University Presses sold $22 million worth of books, five times 1948 sales, and they now account for one out of every eight nonfiction titles produced in the U.S. Many have joined the paperback boom, and are eagerly spreading U.S. scholarship abroad: 15% of all university press sales are now made overseas, and Columbia, Chicago and Yale even operate a joint sales office and warehouse in London...
...specifics of the Press's future are not clear. Even Wilson and the other officers of the Press have no idea who the President and Fellows will select as his successor. Another endless policy debate inside the Press is the question of paperbacks. It has long been the Press's policy to sell paperback rights to other publishers more able to distribute them and eager to pay good advances and royalties, contrary to other university Presses. Harvard's main reason for avoiding the lucrative paperback market is that it doesn't have a large enough staff to handle the extra...
...interview Burack says very little that isn't in the Handbook. And he doesn't have to. "It's all in the book," he says, waving around the little blue paperback like a fundamentalist minister displaying his Bible. The bulk of the book is an 85-page series of lists of basic prescription drugs--what they do and how much they cost--with comparative prices of brand name drugs and their generic equivalents...