Word: authorization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...author of "History of Experimental Psychology" (published 1929, revised 1950); "Sensation and Perception in the History of Experimental Psychology" (1942); "History, Science and Psychology" (1963); and "Source Book in the History of Psychology...
...should Rosemary's Baby be any good? A facile author thinks it would be fun to put a coven of witches in the Dakota (a fortress-like New York apartment house), writes a best seller, and sells it to Paramount which hires a fashionable director for a small fortune to make the movie. It's a sure-fire success formula--not exactly a sublime collaboration of great artists, let alone unusually talented craftsmen. Rosemary's Baby, then, would be easy to dismiss as a slack and inadequate thriller were it not for everyone's desire to take Polanski seriously...
...provocative, not to say infuriating, outside them. Yet he has ventured only timidly and superficially into the field of self-confession. Now 96, he is nearly fanatical in his public utterances, notably those concerning his anti-American position on the Viet Nam war, but he is not a driven author who boldly and recklessly storms the secret vaults of his own life. He is more a Sunday writer, coyly playing it safe, as he wistfully leafs through some of the mementos and letters stored in an attic trunk...
...have a novel here!" Lowry cried on first rereading them. Editor Day more accurately describes Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend Is Laid as "a notebook on its way to becoming a novel." Yet this fragmented, compulsively self-centered, brilliant half book does not at all misrepresent its author. For Lowry was less a novelist than, in Day's words, "a diarist, compulsive notetaker, poet manqué, alcoholic, philosophizing rambler." Writing for him was a mysterious journey that never quite reached its destination. Both as an artist and as a man, he lived in tormented transit...
Journalist Didion, 33, a former Vogue editor and now a Saturday Evening Post columnist, wrote these 20 essays and articles for a variety of magazines between 1961 and 1967. Most of the subject matter is conventional, perhaps even overworked. Yet it approaches art, not merely because Author Didion has an unforgetting reporter's ear, nor simply because she can hit human vagaries with the quick, poisonous aim of an aroused rattlesnake...