Word: novel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Munich in 1945 with the conquering 45th Division, has stayed there or near by ever since, first in the occupation government, later as news editor for Radio Free Europe. Watching a new Munich rising out of the ashes of war and occupation was, he found, "like reading half a novel. I wanted to keep on and see how it came...
...oracle of the far right, had sponsors on 250 of the Mutual stations that carry his nightly news roundup. Last week, pared down to 75 sponsors and detecting restlessness among some of the 300 stations that now carry him without sponsorship, Commentator Lewis awaited the results of a novel ploy...
...Near the Water (MGM) is based on William Brinkley's nutty little bestselling novel about Navy public relations. Slickly directed by Charles Walters (High Society), it turns out to be at its best a gloriously goofy show...
Kiss Them for Me (20th Century-Fox). Frederic Wakeman's Shore Leave, a novel about World War II that was published 13 years ago, told the public some home truths about how civilians were living while servicemen were dying -good reading but bad box office at the time. Now that the issue is safely dead, this movie stages a mighty flashy funeral...
...endless talk, fumbling aspirations and comfortable inefficiency-like a giant in amber. The final chapter tells of the coming of the 1917 Revolution, when all the earnest, high-flown talkers pour into the streets with visions of a newly created heaven on earth. The last lines of the novel make a heartbreakingly ironic point: "We were outside our front door. Father took off his bowler hat and handed it to mother. He folded his arms, turned to Grabovsky and said: 'Imagine, freedom...