Word: midnight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...finest descriptive writers" into a man who for the first time makes his background subordinate to his action, wastes no time on externals, and turns out a story with a good, vigorous plot. There is no doubt that plot is a fine thing, but in A Tale for Midnight, the author has used it only as a device for holding strings of words together. He was probably more honest when, in earlier works like The Asiatics he made no excuse for his writing save a desire to describe...
...Tale for Midnight recounts the history of a crime, and does it well. Beyond this it can claim little distinction. Frederic Prokosch is a good craftsman with words in their immediacy, but only that. His book as a whole lacks vitality and meaning...
...foresee an increase in the library staff because of the new system although several people were added when Lamont announced it would extend its hours until midnight beginning...
Three Methods. At week's end the game was not yet over, but it was clear who was behind. Faure had lost his bid for early elections in December. Out of sheer indecision, the Assembly let time run out during one confused midnight session. It was a clear victory for ex-Premier Mendes-France, who had been fighting for delay until he could organize a left-center coalition that might return him to power. Now elections would be impossible until January, at the earliest...
...Studio alumnus, and Hollywood Expatriate Marilyn Monroe, presently a Studio "observer," got together to make an unlikely combination that could be a hilarious bonanza at the box office. Features of next month's Studio soiree: legerdemain by Actor Orson Welles, risque-poetry reading by Playwright Tennessee Williams, "after-midnight" songs by Italy's Cinemactress Anna Magnani...