Word: authorative
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strivings, together with the equally searing experiences of his six companions, formed the substance of an imaginative, intense volume that won the eighth Harper Prize Novel competition ($7,500), seemed likely to impress readers as the most unusual selection thus far.* The work of Frederic Prokosch, 28-year-old author of The Asiatics (1935) and The Assassins (1936), The Seven Who Fled is distinguished by its sensuous imagery, queer plot and elusive symbolism, as well as by a tantalizing, ambiguous philosophical message which will leave most readers wondering if they have got Author Prokosch's meaning straight...
...alone into the Kuenlun Mountains of Tibet, he was trapped in a snowstorm, endured 30 days of unspeakable physical horror before he found peace as he lay dying in the snow, surrounded by the ice-coated corpses of his guides. Sick, decadent La Scaze, a rich Frenchman, voluptuary, onetime author, remained in Aqsu to recover from fever. Inert and drugged through most of his stay, he awakened when he saw a flawlessly beautiful native girl, who died of cholera the day after he got her. When the plague caught up to him he met his death crying ecstatically...
...characters who are all amateur philosophers as well as men of action, who expound their beliefs, analyze themselves and the contemporary world in ringing phrases as they commit murder, double-cross each other, go down racked with disease, vice, unspeakable spiritual torment. Readers may question the allegorical significance of Author Prokosch's tale, may feel that his situations are too farfetched to be credible. But they are likely to admit that his people are real human beings, that his mountains are really cold, his deserts really hot enough to cause camels to go mad, to make stones look...
...advertising agency, Carl Crow now reveals in 400 Million Customers where he got to while following that vision. An unpretentious, anecdotal account, it is pleasant reading because it deals with a novel part of the Chinese scene and because its humor is as often at the expense of the author and his clients as of the Chinese...
...general, Author Crow's problem was one of learning (by U. S. advertising standards) to do business standing on his head-a position which produced a remarkable number of headaches. In explanation he cites the Chinese consumer's upsidedown wish to buy rather than be sold, his perverse refusal to switch brands once satisfied with the one he has got, resulting in an all-round sales resistance calculated to turn an occidental adman's hair grey. Example: Smarting under the British monopoly, a U. S. client gave the Crow agency a go-ahead on the biggest advertising...