Word: trashiest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Author Lindbergh had built up a large and passionately loyal following among U.S. females, as the first mail deliveries to the Saturday Review quickly proved. "How could any one individual be so cruel?" cried one writer. "I have never seen such cruel, carping criticism of even the trashiest book!" exclaimed another. The Review received a cascade of letters, the vast majority attacking Ciardi's review. Most were from women, and they assailed Ciardi's blunt rancor more than his assessment. There were, however, rumbles from men readers as well. Historian Geoffrey Bruun solemnly declared: "Ciardi exceeded his privileges...
have been sold annually, many of them to people who had seldom bought a hardcover book. Quickie publishers went into the business with the plain intention of out-trashing the trashiest. As business boomed, prices for reprint rights were bid to extravagant heights: $20,000 for a novel became a commonplace. Some hardcover publishers accepted manuscripts that they would ordinarily have rejected, if they could be sure of a profitable resale to a paperback firm...
...Comic Strip. In the contemporary section of the 1953 Salon, the standouts were a brilliant tapestry design done by Jean Picart le Doux and an expertly drawn Quartet of musicians by Hilaire Camille. There was also some plain trash. The trashiest: two heavyhanded pieces of political propaganda by Communist Painter André Fougeron. One, called Atlantic Civilization, had all the artistic merit of a low-class comic strip; it showed a soldier shooting from a brassy U.S. automobile while a bloated capitalist looked on gloatingly and the proletariat wept over their coffins. Le Figaro called Fougeron's work...
...office in the middle of town, is known to the cast of The Racket only as "the Old Man." If anyone knows his name, no one mentions it, and nobody, including the audience, ever gets a look at him. The invisible Old Man gives the best performance in the trashiest major production of the year...