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Word: nesses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...method involves three great concerns--for prose style, for narrative technique and for the psycho-mythical element. The combination is not as confining as it sounds; a closely argued and integrated discussion of the first five novels cited above on these three bases covers them with commendable through-ness. Indeed, the chapters on Nigger and Lord Jim are truly exciting, as only the very best of criticism can be. He says of them...

Author: By Daniel Field, | Title: CONRAD THE NOVELIST, by Albert J. Guerard. Harvard University Press, 315 pp. $5.50 | 10/3/1958 | See Source »

...ERIK SATIE (1866-1925), like Rousseau, turned instinctively to the Hans Christian Andersen world in which fairy stories are meant less for children than for "unbelieving adults." Dismissing Richard Wagner's work as "sauerkraut," Satie spent his life creating tiny musical gems. To Rousseau's mannered childlike-ness, says Author Shattuck, he added a formal naughtiness that made his works almost "a fragile fabric of inanity." For Parade, a ballet on which Diaghilev, Cocteau, Picasso, Massine and Satie collaborated, he wrote a score including parts for typewriters, sirens, airplane propellers, Morse tickers and lottery wheels. An eccentric...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Unstrung Quartet | 8/11/1958 | See Source »

...characters, who said: "I found humanity on its last legs, devoted to fetishes, bigoted, barely capable of distinguishing good from evil-and I shall leave it intelligent, enlightened, regenerated, knowing there is neither good nor evil nor God nor Devil nor spirit nor matter in distinct separate-ness." Apollinaire's thoughts, attitudes and interests hopped from point to point with anarchic abandon: "Unsolved crimes, papal infallibility, and the new art of the moving picture inspired him equally." Blessed with true lyric talent, Apollinaire nevertheless "felt the need to jumble and rearrange his work in complex patterns." His writing "became...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Unstrung Quartet | 8/11/1958 | See Source »

...been banned in Boston, so our folks can either take Hemingway or leave him alone. In this case, they left him alone, and we got gored worse than the bullfighter. Personally, we prefer a picture to carry just one main story-something to match our third-grade mentality."-P.R., Ness City, Kans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Melancholy Critics | 7/7/1958 | See Source »

sail ryve your guts; the Loch Ness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Puddocks | 6/9/1958 | See Source »

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