Word: buechner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...days later, more trouble broke out at Dreilinden, on the line between the Russian zone and the Western sectors of Berlin. A woman in an automobile screamed for help. After West German police had rescued her, she said that she was Johanna Buechner, 30, secretary of the former East German Minister of Heavy Industry, Fritz Selbermann. She had fled to the Western sector, and the two East German police in the automobile had kidnaped her and were taking her back to the Russian area. The Western police arrested one of the East German policemen. Slamming down the zone barrier...
...mature and modest first book about a difficult boy-stepmother relationship. Hans Ruesch tried an offbeat background and brought off a vivid story of Eskimo manners & morals in Top of the World. Most polished of the preciousness school novels was A Long Day's Dying, by Frederick Buechner, a 23-year-old disciple of Henry James. There was nothing precious about young (24) John Hawkes's The Cannibal, a sometimes powerful experimental novel that tried to capture the nightmarish quality of Germany's disintegration in defeat. The Harper Prize of $10,000 went to Debby, Max Steele...
...novel shows no trace of the warmth and grotesque humor that made The Glass Menagerie and A Streetcar Named Desire into first-class stage hits. It is written in the gutless, languid, pseudo-Jamesian manner which has become the trademark of such young novelists as Truman Capote and Frederick Buechner. In fact, The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone would seem to make Tennessee Williams a member in good, if junior, standing of the new school of decadence...