Word: novel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cover to cover reader of TIME, I found the following in the Books section of your issue of April 19, 1948: 'This speedy, thrilling novel begins with a courtship so disarmingly warm and sunny that no reader will dream of the horrors lying in wait . . . Few readers will be able to put down Conspirator before they have reached the last gasp...
...These words about a new English novel by Humphrey Slater made me turn immediately to the novel itself and then to Studio Head Louis B. Mayer, with the recommendation that TIME'S judgment should be followed and the novel purchased at once, if available...
Berlin will discuss the novel as a political and philosophical tract. Inkeles will talk on the political and historical background of the book, while Guerard will take up its literary aspects. "Darkness at Noon" deals with the experiences of a political prisoner during the Communist purge...
...Stalin Prizes went to a 41-year-old Russian newspaper woman named Vera Fedorovna Panova for her first novel, a story of a Red army hospital train in World War II. Published in the U.S., The Train proves to be exceptional in recent Soviet fiction for sticking to its own tracks, with no side excursions into politics and only the rarest toots of the propaganda whistle...
...English Department will offer a full course in writing poetry, taught by Assistant Professor John Ciardi. Professor Perry G. E. Miller will give half of the American Literature survey, and a half-course has been added in the twenieth-century American novel...