Word: booked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...December 2, the CRIMSON ran a feature on Widener Library and the books that are kept in the "Cage." The article stated, "Any book published in the United States or readily available here will be placed in the regular stacks regardless of its content, with the exception of certain medical works like the Kinsey report and birth control propaganda, which are regulated by Massachusetts." [italics added...
Capote particularly delights in the Harvard professor who wrote a critical article on one of his early books, entitled Truman Capote and the Search for the Holy Grail. The article was later published in pamphlet form. "He said that I had steeped myself in the Arthurian legends, that my book was really a subtle, symbolic retelling of the old myths. It was insanity! I never read the Arthurian legends, even as a child. And even today I'm still not sure what the holy grail...
...William Goyen's review in the New York Times Book Review: "'A valentine'! Now, wasn't that a bitchy word...
Social Security. Although it is about bees, this is a human book. The sensitive might almost weep as Crompton tells how he has been obliged to silence diseased hives with Cyanogas, and heard the orchestral voice of his insect friends shut off "as if a hand had been placed over an echoing string." And he follows the worn old worker bee to her last rendezvous with social security. Her wings are torn; her last load of nectar is nothing much; she falls short of the hive. "Just at the time the youngsters at the hive are coming out for school...
...together ("The prevailing impression is of writing by a gifted child with a poor education"). And the authors are so busy treating love affairs "sensitively," making character studies, examining race prejudice, family tensions and other neuroses, that they all but leave out the crime. One example of a book with too many extras: the bestselling Anatomy of a Murder ("We could do without the tippling lawyer's aide, the sentimental love affair at the end, and perhaps some of the medical evidence...