Word: novel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...smoke-filled cellar cafés and cold-water flats of San Francisco's waterfront and Manhattan's Greenwich Village, the word these days is "beat." Patriarch and prophet of what he calls "the beat generation" is a 35-year-old writer named Jack Kerouac, whose recent novel On the Road (TIME, Sept. 16) chronicled the cross-country adventures in cars, bars and beds of a bunch of fancy-talking young bums. Last week, in newspaper interviews with TV's Mike Wallace, Novelist Kerouac and equally beat Poet Philip Lamantia explained that beatness is really a religious...
...Pont Show of the Month: As a "renewer of old treasure," rather than a "maker of new molds," Thornton Wilder found in a one-act play by Prosper Merimee the seed of an idea for his second novel, The Bridge of San Luis Rey. "On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714," he began it, "the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below." It posed the intriguing question: Did they die by accident or by divine plan? Its prose was clean and classical, its characters adroitly limned and it was constructed with the delicacy...
Author Hemingway once described A Farewell to Arms as "my Romeo and Juliet" and the novel does resemble Shakespeare's play in its sentimental confusion of the pathetic with the tragic. Hemingway's Romeo is an American boy who is serving, as Hemingway himself did, in a Red Cross unit attached to the Italian army during World War I. His Juliet is a volunteer nurse in a British field hospital, set up in a small town where the Alps begin to rise toward Austria. They meet, they fall in love, he is sent to the front. A mortar...
Director Clair. now 59, does not everywhere rise to his subject (taken from a novel by René Pallet), and at no point does he approach the artistic altitudes he reached in the '20s. But he works with a degree of taste that few moviemakers can rival, and perhaps as well as any humorist alive he achieves an exquisite thing: he laughs at life but not at people...
...Near the Water. A daffy piece of South Pacifiction, based on William Brinkley's novel about some officers and men engaged in the Navy's public relations-and their own private affairs (TIME...