Word: sectionals
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Once upon a time, those works were below the eye level of publishers as well as buyers. They were all right in their place, but their place was the end of the book review section, the bottom of the shelf and the back of the catalogue. Today that illustrated literature has become a $200 million business whose profits are often handsome enough to compensate for deficits in the sales of adult books. Says Frank Scioscia, sales manager for junior books at Harper & Row: "The children's book business has enjoyed a consistent increase in sales, even though school funds...
...short-sleeved dress in French blue. After three years, selling the bread, macaroons and cake in her uncle's bakery in Indiana, she saved enough for a trip east to visit her aunts. One night, dancing to the music of a German band in Manhattan's Yorkville section, she met Fritz Wolf, a baker from Baden who had also graduated from Ellis in 1923. They married, settled in Queens and had two sons, who now live in Los Angeles. One is in the refrigeration and air-conditioning business. The other served in the U.S. Army for 20 years...
...Pittsburgh Press covered the front page with a picture of a dejected Terry Bradshaw, the Steelers' cowboy quarterback, and devoted the entire sports section to self-pity. Pittsburgh's other daily paper, the Post-Gazette, didn't even have the heart to mention the game...
...current Student Assembly is aportioned according to the population of each House and section of the Yard--one delegate for every 75 students. Under the committee's proposal five students from every House and ten from the freshman Yard would serve as student government representatives. Members of the committee disagree on whether delegates should be elected to particular committees of the assembly, all of which would meet together twice a month, or to the assembly at large, allowing individual delegates to choose committee berths...
...theater. Hastily substituted for two Samuel Beckett pieces at a late date, The Berlin Requiem is a series of seven songs devoid of light, hope, and in the end life itself. It is a work of music, really, not theater at all. Weill's orchestration turns the woodwind section into a mock organ, coldly pealing in the face of death...