Word: novel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Airline Hostess. Nehru has no private plane. On the seven-hour regular flight from New Delhi to Madras he dozed a little and read snatches from a novel. But most of the time he walked the airplane's aisle, performing the duties of an airline hostess-adjusting ventilating valves, checking on safety belts, arranging women's wraps and generally making the passengers more comfortable...
...transonic" (transition) speed is the worst. After the wing gets moving well above Mach I, the air behaves reasonably again, but in a novel manner. From the leading edge of the wing, two intense sound waves flare off like the bow waves of a boat. Two more flare off from the trailing edge. If the moving object has any irregularities or sharp curves, these are apt to trail their sound waves...
...average ex-students of U.S. history. Adapted from James Street's bestseller, it is the story of Mississippians who refused to secede from the Union, holed up in a valley, and stuck by their guns until the guns were shot out of their hands. Another angle fully as novel to moviegoers is the Handsome Confederate Officer (Whitfield Connor). Not only is he not the soul of gallantry & honuh; he has the soul of a razorback...
What makes The Heart of the Matter Graham Greene's most profound novel is that Henry Scobie, who seems to have one skin less than his tortured predecessors, actually has one more. In Brighton Rock (1938) Graham Greene drew a horrifying portrait of an adolescent Catholic named Pinkie, who was headed straight for damnation, and dimly, desperately knew it. In The Heart of the Matter he draws a man who is threatened with the same damnation, and sees it-apparently-much more clearly. Every man & woman, of whatever color, who has run into Scobie during his 15 years...
...Waugh, a fellow Catholic, thinks that Greene intended to make a saint out of Sinner Scobie. Yet, he says, to will your own damnation "for the love of God is either a very loose poetical expression or a mad blasphemy." Waugh admires The Heart of the Matter as a novel but disapproves its theology. His opinion is by no means the verdict of all Catholic critics; the book has been banned as obscene in Eire, acclaimed by one of England's leading Jesuits, Father Martindale. And it has quickly become a bestseller in both England...