Word: deadly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first NDEA report became hysterical about the question of Federal aid to education, which both the Council and the Faculty felt to be a dead issue already decided, and failed to come to grips with the essential issues of the loyalty oath. Only the second NDEA report, a model committee report, concerned itself with the issues at hand...
Overcrowding, operating expenses, and a coming survey of traffic in House dining halls have compelled the University to enforce suddenly a dead-letter regulation forbidding undergraduates to eat lunch at Harkness Commons...
...literature registers a milestone this week: Flem Snopes is dead. His death in The Mansion closes a William Faulkner trilogy that stands alone in U.S. writing for its wild, weird comedy, its savage indictment of rapacity and greed, its haughty indifference to the reader's bewilderment as he tries to follow some of the most obscurely motivated characters in any literature. The Hamlet (TIME, April i, 1940) and The Town (TIME, May 6, 1957) proved that the Snopeses were never far from Faulkner's mind even as he was writing other books that...
...fond of discussing his talent, often in terms that make it sound like a prize begonia. "America is a cruel soil for talent," he writes. "It stunts it, blights it, uproots it, or overheats it with cheap fertilizer." In this book, Author Mailer (The Naked and the Dead) sets aside the arduous business of novel writing and takes up horticulture. His first book in four years is a rock garden of schoolboy short stories, failed poems, fragments of plays, snippings from old novels and lumps from a new one-a mammoth work which Mailer says will probably take ten years...
...unfavorable reviews he has received, and reacts with the fury of an upstaged diva to a photograph he considers ill-chosen. In effect, what Mailer has produced is a record of an artistic crackup. By the early 1950s the spare, controlled prose of The Naked and the Dead had turned sour and turgid, and its author was drifting in a haze of liquor, seconal and marijuana. Mailer has stopped using "the minor drugs," he says (although he believes that after a few more years of suppression marijuana will be as widely used as was bootleg...