Word: effective
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that sometimes stumbles, as if Producer Darryl F. Zanuck and Director Henry King had decided that the best way to condense the novel on film would be literally to shoot the action and dialogue in well-chosen chunks. Half the book is better than none, but the over-all effect is jerky. Nonetheless, in its best sequences, Sun shines more brilliantly than anything of Hemingway's ever filmed before...
Cross-Country Effect. The effects of the rate touched all of Canada. In Montreal a spokesman for the Canadian Pulp and Paper Association, whose members sell newsprint for U.S. dollars, complained that the "abnormal and artificially high value of the Canadian dollar" had created an "urgent and pressing problem" for ex port industries, which still must pay their domestic costs in high-priced Canadian dollars. In Alberta cattle growers found the interest of U.S. buyers waning in the face of a 6% exchange...
...confidence for more than two years is sensitive to the least faltering in the economic indexes. Last week there was enough evidence of a flattening out in the boom, added to the cutback in Government spending, to send the stock market spinning (see below) and to have an unsettling effect on businessmen and economists alike...
...have run in Little Folks magazine. Under the rough exterior of Hemingway, he's just a great big bleeding heart. Sinclair Lewis was a crypto-sentimentalist and a slovenly writer who managed a slight falsification of life in order to move the reader. Faulkner falsified life for dramatic effect. It's sentimentality disguised by the corncob. I can't read ten pages of Steinbeck without throwing up. I couldn't read the proletarian crap that came out in the '30s; again you had sentimentalism-the poor oppressed workers...
...Government toilers, at least, the book's unsalted satire will be a mouthwatering mess of office gossip. And it is also probable that in these humor-scarce times, the book will become a bestseller. It bears a declaration, signed by Publisher Alfred Knopf personally, to the effect that "I cannot remember when I have laughed so much over a novel." On this evidence, at least. Publisher Knopf is easily amused...