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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PANAMA PORTRAIT (242 pp.)- Stanley Ellin-Random House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Conformity's Crises | 8/31/1962 | See Source »

...books, Paul Mandel's Main-side, a skilled first novel set at a Florida naval air station, and Stanley Ellin's The Panama Portrait, which takes place on an island off South America, illustrate just how far-flung fictional organization men are becoming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Conformity's Crises | 8/31/1962 | See Source »

...themselves down. If they wait too long they strangle to death. It is, after all, a bit like bullfighting; and besides, to get the rock lobster contract he must seem simpdtico to the proud Bam-bas-Quincy family, whose wealth dominates the island. Finally, Ben Smith sees what Author Ellin's cluttered symbolism has been thundering about all along: U.S. commerce and Santo Stefano cruelty are all of a piece. The self-control demanded of the self-hanged men-who lose the contest if they begin to twitch and jiggle in the noose too soon-is precisely the quiescence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Conformity's Crises | 8/31/1962 | See Source »

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