Word: harrows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...belief in the divine truths." "He was so shy," reports a visitor, "that [his mother] was forced to send for him three times before she could persuade him to come into the drawing room." "He was loud, even coarse . . . a rough, curly-headed boy . . . nothing more," says a Harrow schoolmate...
Sales of the novels in paperback editions now total 3,500,000 copies. Since 1946, when The Foxes of Harrow first jumped to the top of the bestseller lists, Yerby's books have earned him an estimated $1,000,000 (exclusive of movie and magazine rights). The really intriguing item in this success story is that Yerby is a Negro - a Negro whose stuff is just as terrible (and entertaining) as any white author...
...shown a faint interest in his steel-mill epic, that he wanted to try a fast historical opus. On the strength of 27 pages turned out in one night (by day Yerby worked in a plane factory), Joel gave him a $250 advance. The book became The Foxes of Harrow...
...Geneticist Trofim D. Lysenko, currently out of favor with his bosses, has tried hard-perhaps too hard-for a comeback. At a conference on farm problems, he backed a "new Russian agricultural discovery": plowless farming. Despite Booster Lysenko's proprietary enthusiasm, the technique (loosening soil with a disk harrow instead of plow-turning it over) is old hat to Western experts, has been tried experimentally in various parts of the U.S. for more than a decade...
...anyone who wants to know where English fiction is heading nowadays. No other novel of recent years is a better example of English writing at its contemporary peak of stylized, aristocratic poise-never a flubbed phrase, never a pothole in the smooth course. Author Leslie Poles Hartley, a Harrow-and-Oxford man with six finely finished novels behind him (Eustace and Hilda and The Boat), was born in 1895-roughly contemporary with the late great D. H. Lawrence-and the theme of The Go-Between is pretty much that of Lady Chatterley's Lover. Yet the two books...