Word: arrowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Arrow in the Blue" is a puzzling book. Often it seems to leave the realm of autobiography to become an elongated essay, a psychological novel, or a volume of modern history. At times only the personal pronoun reminds us that this is Arthur Koestler writing about himself. The casual reader will have a difficult time integrating the many facets of this book, but the more perceptive will realize that this is one of the best pieces of autobiographical writing to emerge in recent years...
Some of the better Westerns produced in the last few years have stressed the more human side of the American Indian, rather than portraying him as a red Capone on horseback. The best of these, as I recall, was The Broken Arrow, in which the hero married an Apache girl. The Big Sky, a screen adaptation of A. B. Guthrie's excellent historical novel, is the latest movie to benefit from sympathetic treatment of Indians...
...ARROW IN THE BLUE (353 pp.]-Arthur Koestler-Mocm...
...Koestler has chosen to give still more specific testimony in the form of his autobiography. Arrow in the Blue. Volume I. published this week, firmly demonstrates that he was not overbold to attempt a self-summation so early. In this volume alone, which carries him only to his 27th year, Author Koestler lives as many lives as most men do in their full span...
...long after, he had a vision of life as an arrow, hurtling upwards into the blue; and not long after that, he had another in which the arrow split lengthwise. One half, as the metaphysical wunderkind interpreted it, was action, the other contemplation...