Word: mccoys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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TIME'S review of Horace McCoy's Kiss Tomorrow Good-Bye [TIME, May 10] was as insensitive as the review claimed Mr. McCoy's book to be ... No book can be this bad, even if it were transcribed from "the literature of men's-room walls...
TIME, in its impetuous desire to display satirical muscles, neglected to note McCoy's adroit use of symbolism, the uncanny fluency and nearness of his dialogue, and the influence (for good or bad) of Henry Miller upon his writing. I predict that TIME will shortly be forced to eat the cynicism and satire that was so flippantly fired from the side of its mouth...
...HORACE McCoY...
...Author McCoy, a Hollywood hand, keeps firing words out of the side of his mouth as if they were bullets, though often enough when they land they seem more like spitballs. Occasionally, to show he knows his way around a dictionary (or beyond it), he tosses in a word like "propliopithecustian." But most of the time he sticks to the literary method which assumes that the height of human expression can be reached in a monosyllabic grunt...
Among some Parisian café thinkers, who seem to believe that Chicago is run by Al Capone and that New Yorkers live in nightclubs, McCoy has been honored as the peer of Hemingway and Faulkner. The trash he writes is closer to the literature of men's-room walls...