Word: bitterness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years after graduation from Harvard (1915), Marquand served in the cavalry on the Mexican border, overseas as first lieutenant of field artillery. After the War he tried reporting for a year on the New York Tribune, quit because it was no place to "make a fortune." As a bitter ad writer, he saved a few hundred dollars, quit to write popular fiction...
Methodical and efficient, Author Marquand dictates first drafts, rewrites slowly. Once fond of reading adventure fiction, he now prefers what he calls "the bitter people"-Maugham and Thackeray. "I have," declares sardonic Author Marquand, "only three friends in the world and two of those don't like...
...BITTER CREEK-James Boyd-Scribner...
...written about the present age; a writer needs "the perspective of years to know what most of it amounts to-if anything." Not because his theory is necessarily correct, but because he has written good U. S. historical romances (Drums, Long Hunt, et al.), readers will be glad that Bitter Creek returns to the past. Set in the West of the '70s, it is a historical close-up which confirms James Boyd's high stand in the historical-romance industry...
Although the story concerns the persecution of Jewish Dr. Mamlock, it is pointed at a greater purpose than racial equality. Behind almost every incident lies calculated Communist propaganda. Dr. Mamlock's removal from his clinic and his brutal treatment are minor themes which bind together a bitter denunciation of Nazi methods. Definitely meant for foreign consumption and as a guide to Communist technique, the picture is aimed to destroy the theory that Communists set the Reichstag fire and opposed the welfare of Germany. The moviegoer should note these pointed thrusts of propaganda, but pay greater attention to the artistic merits...