Word: janning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some Came Running (M-G-M), James (From Here to Eternity) Jones's best-selling second novel (TIME, Jan. 13, 1958), was a 1,266-page description of almost continuous sexual activity, climaxed with frequent and flagrant violations of the English language. But the book at least had the distinction of being the biggest (2 lbs. 11 oz.) literary clinker of the year. The film, perhaps because it has necessarily been sterilized by the censor, is not nearly so successful. In the last twelve months there have been at least two major movies (The Vikings and A Farewell...
Dorothy Baker, whose Young Man with a Horn (TIME, June 6, 1938) looked steadily at a great jazzman, and Edward Hoagland, who lighted up the life of the circus in Cat Man (TIME, Jan. 16, 1956). They too were first novels, and they too dealt with character in unfamiliar surroundings...
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