Word: like
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Like a runaway Wagnerian opera, Fountainhead lumbers from crisis to crisis in a hysterical crescendo of muddleheaded talk and stagy pretentiousness. Its final, most brassy explosion: an enormous, foreshortened view of Gary Cooper-presumably a hulking symbol of rugged individualism -straddling the topmost scaffolding of his new skyscraper. Apparently aimed at Communist and other critics of the American way, Fountainhead will provide some of the corniest grist for Soviet propaganda mills that Hollywood has produced in a long time...
...school in Pulaski County for six years, handles the talk of the hill people and evokes a picture of the countryside with the sureness of Elizabeth Madox Roberts. There is no question of her success in picturing the profane and pious old people, the backwoodsmen with fine old names like Ballew and Hull, the proud parents who gave their children names like Alben W. Barkley Tiller, the farmers working on the WPA or in the automobile factories of Detroit...
...book's humor is broad and some times raucous, but the sort of countrified slapstick that is amusing in Erskine Caldwell or Jesse Stuart is mildly unsettling when combined with Mrs. Arnow's delicate and sensitive prose; she seems to have forgotten that people seldom like to hear a woman swear...
...Like The Track of the Cat (TIME, June 6), Hunter's Horn invites the inevitable comparison with Herman Melville and his classic tale of Captain Ahab's pursuit of Moby Dick. That Melville's influence can be dangerous is shown in this case by the fact that Nunn Ballew's chase of King Devil has little of the intensity of Ahab's passionate quest after the white whale. In the end, the hunting down of the great fox is only an interruption in the more interesting story of a family's fight...
...enough. Mr. Gamfield, the chimneysweeper in Oliver Twist, who labored under "the slight imputation of having bruised three or four boys to death," explained the attitude of masters to boys who got stuck: "Boys is wery obstinit, and wery lazy, gen'lmen, and there's nothink like a good hot blaze to make 'em come down vith a run . . . vereas smoke ain't o' no use at all in makin' a boy come down, for it only sinds him to sleep, and that's wot he likes . . . It's humane...