Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Back to Buying. Knopf admits that the grievous inadequacy of authors, booksellers and critics does not excuse publishers for "producing the large volume of trivial, unimportant, inferior and downright unworthy stuff we do." He roasts his colleagues for handing out contracts to hopefuls who have never written novels and, worse still, for printing the results. Standards are so low, he complains, that no one "can say to any author, 'Your book is so bad that it can't be published,' because the author is just as likely as not to go down the street and sell...
Havelock also struck at the fact that "much of the Latin instruction introduced in high schools is pretty poor stuff...
Veto Power? Among Dulles' grittiest pre-Paris problems is France's anger at the U.S. and Britain for sending arms to pro-Western Tunisia a fortnight ago. With French rancor so strong that it threatened to stuff up the atmosphere at the Paris meeting, Foreign Minister Christian Pineau flew to Washington last week and talked over with Dulles ways and means of keeping Western arms delivered to Tunisia from getting into the hands of rebels in neighboring Algeria...
...Harvard man got up and started to leave. "You know what this stuff is?" he asked as he trundled by. "It's devolution. Spawned in the hillbilly hinterlands and the African jungle. And sustained by the gathered momentum of Sound. Sound and Motion--a sense narcotic to dispel the dim and Damoclean shadow of reality...
...picked up a magazine. "Living Tissue reaches 50,000 people, even though we've only 13,000 members. I usually lead off each issue with some spiritual stuff." He smiled, and pointed out a photograph of himself, his wife, and their...