Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harvard's newest musical organization presented a recital in Memorial Church Friday night. The Organ society enlisted the services of Richard Reynolds, organist for the Central Congregational church of Jamaica Plain. His attractive, unusual program more than compensated for his minor technical deficiencies...
...Plain answers by any U.S. applicant for a U.N. job to plain questions concerning Communist affiliations...
...might well have objected to all this attention was plain-speaking Charley Russell himself. "In my book," he once told a Montana booster meeting, "a pioneer is a man who comes to a virgin country, traps off all the fur, kills off all the wild meat, cuts down all the trees, grazes off all the grass, plows the roots up, and strings 10 million miles of bob wire. A pioneer destroys things and calls it civilization. I wish to God that this country was just like it was when I first saw it and that none of you folks were...
...literary Geiger counters clicked only feebly. But publishers and booksellers, ready to settle for mere gold in the hills, found 1952 rewarding. Production costs continued to go up (as did book prices), but there were few major disappointments along publishers' row, and quite a few rich strikes. To plain readers, prospecting for good, entertaining reading, the year brought a lot of satisfaction; six novels and six nonfiction books passed the 100,000 mark, creating the kind of bookstore traffic that carried along many more modest titles. In fiction, it was a year not of newcomers but of oldtimers...
...these were just penny-dreadfuls at a quarter, there was also plenty of good reading. In this volatile market, The Confessions of Saint Augustine and The Universe and Dr. Einstein became bestsellers -alongside Mickey Spillane (1952 sales: 6,074,135), a kind of poolroom Marquis de Sade. It was plain to the worried hardcover men that the two-bit upstarts had tapped a new market of readers. The paperbacks were even publishing originals and luring away writers with promises of better royalties and wider readership. But the paperbacks were headed for trouble: in Washington, a congressional committee was lambasting...