Word: readers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...college generation, but it is certainly to glib. Bogard suggests that "we've been taught a helluva lot of Don'ts and almost no Do's." causes of apathy are much deeper and more complex than Frede's closing explanation suggests. In sum, the author fails to convince the reader that he is capable of more than a tabloid presentation of character or idea...
Also more rather than less in the aural tradition are two chapters from the novel Cadenza by Ralph Kusack. Each is an episode about childhood in Ireland full of color and suspense. There are times when Kusack's grammar gets the better of the reader, but at least the prose is rarely flat. Description procedes with abrupt transitions and gives an effect resembling the flicker in old movies, but the technique suits the generally continuous action and falters only in a few waiting scenes...
Ishpeming, Mich. ¶ TIME'S story stressed Justice Voelker's witty, broadminded defense of constitutional safeguards, illustrated it with a picture in which Novelist Voelker stripped himself for a LIFE photographer to help promote his readable, highly sexed Anatomy of a Murder. Let Reader Voelker ponder the rewards and hazards of leading a successful double life...
During World War II, convinced that fighting men wanted their reading light and sexy, Esquire dropped almost all reading matter that required concentration. Major advertisers drifted away, suspicious of the reader who thumbed over the magazine's trashy mysteries, westerns and pinups. Gingrich left in 1945, but remained a stockholder. In 1952 Smart recalled him, gave him a free hand to change Esquire as he liked...
...Brooms. For all its blatant oversimplification, The Ugly American (a title that seeks to go beyond and below Graham Greene's The Quiet American) has the great merit of drawing the reader into a vital subject rarely treated by fiction. And this Book of the Month Club selection does illustrate the fact that no nation in history has ever faced the problems the U.S. encounters. Like proconsuls of General Napier's type, U.S. officials are held responsible for the welfare of millions, are expected to attend to their wants and hopes, from plumbing to higher education. But, unlike...