Word: paperbacks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lincoln) and stuffs them with gobs of unsorted data, pulpy dialogue and icky emotionalism. Not all fact yet hardly worth calling fiction, Stone's books have the intellectual value of slightly organized debris, but they sell. Lust for Life (1934) moved some 2 million copies in cloth and paperback. Approaching 3 million, The Agony and the Ecstasy (1961) is still going strong. The Passions of the Mind, released early to most booksellers, had sold 125,000 before its official publicaton date...
...most single-minded and conservative of the three is the work of a modern Thomistic philosopher, Georgetown University's Germain Grisez. His hefty book, Abortion: The Myths, the Realities, and the Arguments (Corpus, $12.50; paperback, $6.95), is chiefly valuable as a contemporary exposition of the traditional Roman Catholic stand against all abortions. Grisez concedes only that the law need not forbid abortion in the classic case of saving a mother's life (even the strictest U.S. laws have generally allowed that exception) and possibly in a pregnancy due to rape. Where liberalization is inevitable, he suggests that legislators...
Beyond the Gates. There are pitfalls, of course. Most of them are detailed in 4 days, 40 hours (175 pages, $5, Bursk and Poor Publishing), a paperback survey edited by Mrs. Riva Poor, a Cambridge management consultant. A few companies gave up the four-day week because their customers refused to adapt to the new schedule. Some workers complained of fatigue because of the longer days. Other firms rushed into a four-day week without sufficiently preparing their work force, then found that they had to raise wages to make the change in hours acceptable. Among companies that switched successfully...
...paperback edition of Lillian Ross' Picture reminds us of the legendary stature Huston once attained. The story of the making of Huston's The Red Badge of Courage, it is a tragicomic chronicle of the director's attempt to make a film which was conceived in form and substance to cut against the traditional grain, at a time when convention-breaking was not fashionable; at a time when studio heads could still dictate how a film should be produced...
Close to 1,000,000 copies of Segal's hardcover book are in print. Love Story is still number one on the bestseller list?while a 95¢ edition is the top-selling paperback. Now comes the celluloid version, manipulating audiences with contrived bathos. Let's see . . . if just the people who bought the book go to the movie and take someone they love, that's 12 million tickets at $3 apiece . . . No wonder Love Story has enjoyed the largest opening-week grosses in the history of American cinema. No wonder that on Christmas Day, when it opened across the country...