Word: maying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Were Strangers. Director John Huston's fling at a Cuban revolution; a better-than-average melodrama, but grade B Huston, with John Garfield and Jennifer Jones (TIME, May...
...Belvedere Goes to College. Clifton Webb resumes his supercilious career as an all-round genius (TIME, May...
Little Women. A colorful remake of Louisa May Alcott's sentimental classic (TIME, March...
This fantastically bad novel is built around a single, anguished theme-Author Wylie's teeth-grinding grief that the world turns its back on his views. In Generation of Vipers, where his views made a little sense, however overstated they may have been, Wylie was impressive for his stark anger at the course of U.S. civilization. In Opus 21, he buries a few pinheads of truth so deep in bad taste and bad writing that his message, if any, is lost in the muck, and his jeremiad itself is silly...
Expected Swipe. Exactly what this story means each reader may decide for himself; like much genuinely first-rate fiction, it allows for a variety of interpretations because it reverberates with many possible meanings. But no reader is likely to doubt that it will soon find a place as a minor classic in the American short story, a ruthless fable about the human soul that might have come out of Hawthorne...