Word: driveling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other picture on the bill, it is frank and undisguised drivel. The only exciting part is a prolonged scene in which the wife, Helen Twelvetrees, attempts to inform her husband that she is going to have a child. She discourses at length on the beauties of the park, looks ethereal and at last departs in high dudgeon because hubby just will not take the hint. At last by dint of rubbing his nose in some yarn, and announcing that his wife is going to ******, an Irish wardrobe mistress gets across the idea. All goes to show the blushing naivete...
Says he: Publishers Simon & Schuster have most successfully developed the art of "panicking" the public into buying their books-books often intrinsically worthless. Says Critic Notch: "Anyone who reads Trader Horn at a distance of years sees it for what it is: senile drivel touched up with loving skill by a third-rate novelist." Notch attacks the Book Clubs: "The intellectual appeal of the Book Clubs is simple, frank-and dishonest. . . . Here [in having well-known critics select the books] is a calculated misunderstanding of the critic's function: which is to produce good literature...