Word: foley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Miss Foley, more venturesome, has set out to pick the best 28 stories of the year. Several of them are good, but on the evidence it is doubtful whether as many as 28 really good stories were published last year. The best in her book: Saul Bellow's recording (in Partisan Review) of a quack doctor's monologue in Chicago's "Bughouse Square"; Paul Bowles's eerie portrait (Mademoiselle) of a missionary's effort to hold the attention of primitive Indians by playing them jazz records; Peggy Bennett's sketch (Harper's Bazaar...
...BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES 1950 (452 pp.) -Edited by Martha Foley-Houghton Mifflin...
From Miss Foley's anthology, he could argue that the U.S. is psyche-deep in insecurity, addicted to the subtle analysis of private anguish, decadent in social morality, and continually worried about the problem of racial minorities. From the Satevepost collection, he would get a picture of a U.S. incredibly complacent about its national virtues, convinced that romance always ends with a kiss of betrothal, and devoted to the notion that everything always turns out right...
...Muddy-Brow. The most interesting thing about Miss Foley's book this time is that it seems to reflect an internal reorientation in the avant-garde literary world. Half of her stories are from the highbrow little magazines, but these are no more experimental or daring - and no better in quality - than the stories she picks from the slicks and fashion magazines. One reason: increasingly these days, magazines such as Harper's Bazaar and Mademoiselle have been offering more than the little magazines can pay for the work of the more understandable in the avantgarde...
...time the festival was over, some of the musicians had decided to stay on indefinitely. Tall, pretty U.S. Cellist Madeleine Foley was canceling most of her engagements in order to remain. Said she: "Why should I go home and play when he may die some day? I'm going to stay here as long as I can borrow the money." Young Pianist Eugene Istomin was renting a villa so that he could study with Casals until next December...