Word: parlous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...freedom of the press in these parlous times means handing out information to Russia and the rest of the world on what our military is going to do before it has done it, then to hell with the press...
...fast as they can be printed (a near record 11,881 titles so far this year), and customers are buying at a rate that will probably surpass the 1956 high of some $750 million. But to Veteran Publisher Alfred A. Knopf, 65, the state of the publishing business is parlous. In the current Atlantic Monthly, Knopf lines up his culprits for a scattergun blast...
...Time for Masking. For all Dior's success, Paris couture in general is in parlous economic shape. Eastern European markets (except for exiled royalty) have dried up. Currency and import restrictions have cut purchases from Britain, Spain, Scandinavia, Brazil and Argentina. Since war's end eleven major houses have closed (among them: Molyneux, Lelong, Paquin, Worth, Schiaparelli). The big houses make their money on sales to the U.S. and abroad, or on sidelines-perfume, hosiery, etc. But most depend on private individual customers, who even at Dior account for more than 60% of the total dress sales. Nowadays...
...reading public has reached the point where it is shocked by Mr. Wouk's advocacy of decency, honor, discipline, authority, chastity before marriage, etc., then the public is in a parlous state . . . Mr. Wouk's books are a healthy sign that U.S. fiction is taking a turn for the better...
Stalemate in Europe? The biggest and worst news concerned the parlous state of EDC. Whatever the Brussels Conference (see FOREIGN NEWS) or subsequent plastic surgery might salvage from the Mendés-France amendments, EDC's future was highly limited. From its beginning, EDC had two aspects. The larger was a long step toward European unity. As such, it represented the positive side of U.S. policy, the hope for a more rational and orderly world. EDC's other aspect was more modest: a device for making German rearmament palatable to French politicians. This objective was part...