Word: moderns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FIXER. A generally faithful and often moving adaptation of Bernard Malamud's Pulitzer prizewinning novel about the passion of a modern Job. Under the careful and inventive direction of John Frankenheimer, the cast-notably Alan Bates, Dirk Bogarde and Ian Holme-bring to the film a moral force reminiscent of Dostoevsky...
Basically, new sections are created to provide editorial flexibility. Modern Living, which first appeared in TIME, May 12, 1961, brought together items that might otherwise have been spread throughout the magazine. New sections also prove to be eminently suitable departments for stories that might never have found space in the magazine at all. Essay, which first ran in the issue of April 2, 1965, gave the editors a section with the scope to handle major questions that transcend the boundaries of several departments or demand treatment of near cover length...
...brilliant legal scholar and brother of outgoing Interior Secretary Stewart Udall, took on Boston's venerable John McCormack, 77, in a contest for the post of Speaker. Udall, who was entering first grade when McCormack took his seat in the House, also defied precedent: few Speakers in modern times have been threatened by a member of their own party, and none has ever been ousted. It was Udall's challenge to McCormack that inspired Kennedy's campaign against Long...
...City government. Excerpts have appeared in the New American Review and Partisan Review as well as in Esquire, and the unpublished book has already earned over half a million dollars. Its real value, though, lies in Roth's revelation of a brilliant urban intelligence confronting the chaos of modern life and his own psyche -written with irony, outrage and hysterical laughter...
Another genre might be called Installation Romance. By George R. Stewart (Storm), out of Vicki Baum (Grand Hotel), such books lure the reader into the pullulating heart of some modern institution, which thereafter teems with professional expertise and ersatz emotion. Among the best and most successful recent examples are Arthur Hailey's Hotel and Airport. Next year, intrepid fiction reporters will go inside such serious installations as hospitals (The Death Committee by Noah Gordon), the aircraft industry (Brood of Eagles by Richard Stern), and the construction of a New York skyscraper (The Builders by William Woolfollc...