Word: crookedness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In 1940, Monsieur and Madame Poissonard are a modest little Parisian couple who keep a modest little dairy shop called An Bon Beurre. In 1950 the Poissonards have 47 million francs, a garish apartment, a country estate, and a son-in-law who is a member of parliament. The shortest...
Inevitably, Rocky made his tour through a long series of reform schools and jails. He was a big shot, a guy who shared lice-ridden cells with drug addicts, crooked politicians, bookies, lunatics and gunmen. During his few periods of freedom he did a little "amateur" boxing for pocket money...
"The figure of Raskolnikov in Crime and Punishment has important philosophic implications. There are comparable conceptions of the Superman in other countries: in England, Marlowe's Faustus; in Germany, Nietzshe's Ubermensch; in America, "Superman Comics." With his pipe clenched slightly crooked through an ironic smile, Professor Renato Poggioli warmed...
Lunatics and Lovers (by Sidney Kingsley) represents a new venture-into farce -for the author of Men in White, Dead End and Detective Story. But, though it certainly has its good points, there is nothing new about Lunatics and Lovers itself. The scene is a farce-hallowed Broadway hotel suite...
Smashup, by Theodore Pratt (Gold Medal; paperbound. 25?). is a graphic reminder to drive carefully even when the life you save may not be your own. On the highways of a town called Center City, one car plows into another at 50 miles an hour. Score: one dead, one severely...