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Frankie is the pawky, gawky heroine of Carson McCullers' slim (195-page) new novel-she calls it a novella. Unlike Novelist McCullers' earlier books (The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Reflections in a Golden Eye), which were well filled with the complex, morbid relationships of adults, The Member of the Wedding is a serious attempt to recapture that elusive moment when childhood melts into adolescence. The result is often touching, always strictly limited by the small scope of its small characters. Like childhood, it is full of incident but devoid of a clear plot; always working...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The End of F. Jasmine Addams | 4/1/1946 | See Source »

...resemblance to the Scandinavian drama, especially of Strinberg, which, if not handled with great finesse, can all too easily collapse into a conglomeration of heroics and absurd fantasy. In his contemporary Gorki, the intellectual depression around 1900 produced revolutionary ideas; in Andreyev it resulted in the almost morbid gloom of such works as "The Red Laugh...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PLAYGOER | 2/15/1946 | See Source »

...still to be at work in the weekly, Les Nouvelles Littéraires which castigated it as a "fad of ugliness-Sartre's books seem to be a transcription of the mental life of ignoble and tranquilly abnormal people . . . sickening mixture of philosophic pretentiousness, equivocal dreams, physiological technicalities, morbid tastes and hesitant eroticism . . . an introspective embryo that one would take distinct pleasure in crushing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EUROPE: Existentialism | 1/28/1946 | See Source »

Here & there throughout the speech was a scattering of Churchillian invective: "morbid and reactionary Socialists," "hagridden by Socialist doctrinaries," "bitter, cast-iron Socialist dogmas," "the gloomy vultures of nationalization," "the heavy-footed State...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Fundamental Quarrels | 12/10/1945 | See Source »

...cosmopolitan background and a fully developed style when he returned. In the mid-'30s, Russia did not shoot but it did ostracize composers whose music did not keep time to the Marxian metronome. Prokofiev's first Soviet piece, Symphonic Song, was scorned by Russian critics for its "morbid resignation" and its "tendencies of urbanized lyricism." Wrote Soviet critic A. Ostretsov: "We do not dispute Prokofiev's right to reflect the emotional world of 'superfluous' people in the West, with their rottenness and putrefaction . . . but we do not share the . . . humanistic sympathy with these persons." Prokofiev...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Composer, Soviet-Style | 11/19/1945 | See Source »

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