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Lord of the Flies. William Golding's widely read novel of human frailty and the force of sin in society has been translated into an adventure story about castaway boys on a desert island that is often shocking but never frightening. Golding's harrowing allegory has been lost, and all that is left is an ineptly acted movie that will anger the book's partisans, perplex the uninitiated...
Some of the cops were over 6 ft. and 200 lbs. Some of them had peculiar bulges under their skirts that could only have been made by service revolvers. Few of them would have turned the head of a castaway sailor. But they got plenty of action-and results. By hiding behind a woman's skirts, New York City's decoys made 23 arrests in the first three days of the operation. They even hauled in three girls who, on closer examination, turned out to be males themselves...
...because it has an amateurish, imprecise sound, and perhaps also because there is not often an occasion to use it. Not many of today's authors are good imaginers. One of the few is Britain's William Golding, 51. Lord of the Flies, his horrifying novel about castaway children, is a parable of man's instinctive hostility to man whose growing popularity in undergraduate circles (TIME, June 22) now rivals that of Catcher in the Rye. Golding's new book is less savage, and it is no parable, but a subdued, haunting tale told...
...affectionate kind of fratricide." What Brandeis has in fact produced is a mirror of the liberal, learned, humane tone of Justice Brandeis himself. For just this reason, it is likely to go on being a kettle of highly individualistic fish. Says Sachar: "You've heard about the two castaway Jews on a desert island? When they're rescued, they're asked why they built three temples. It's because every Jew must have one temple he wouldn't be caught dead...
Morning. Sunshine. Palm trees. "We're alive!" Unfortunately, so is the giant crab, 18 ft. from claw to claw, that comes scuttling down the beach. After a fearful battle, the monster plops into a boiling hot spring. The castaways breakfast heartily on boiled crab, then sight a small boat drifting ashore. What luck! The boat just happens to contain what every cinema castaway most urgently requires: women...