Word: novel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...British officer (beautifully played by versatile Alec Guinness, ably supported by William Holden and Jack Hawkins) who builds a bridge for his Japanese captors, to restore his fellow prisoners' self-respect, then helps destroy it. ¶ Warner's Sayonara, an adaptation of James Michener's novel about two American veterans of the Korean war who marry Japanese girls. The Americans: Marlon Brando and Red Buttons. CJ ¶20th Century-Fox's Peyton Place -murder, suicide and assorted sex activities distilled from Grace Metalioús' bestselling novel. Stars: Lana Turner, Lloyd Nolan and flocks...
This posthumous novel draws an elegiac picture of an American scene that vanished scarcely a generation ago but already seems as remote as Eden. The story opens in Knoxville. Tenn. as the city dreams through a summer evening filled with the cry of locusts, an evening as calm as the shirtsleeved men watering their lawns in the gentle half-light. A streetcar makes its metallic groan on a curve and disappears trailing sparks like blue fireflies; chanting children play in the circling glow of a lamppost. And when it grows dark, there are more quiet stars in the sky than...
...With each of his few books-Permit Me Voyage (1934), a collection of poems published when Agee was scarcely out of college; Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941), an angry Depression report on sharecroppers in the Deep South; The Morning Watch (TIME, April 23, 1951), his moving first novel-critics had been waiting the fulfillment of Agee's great promise. This book, finished just before his death but not fully edited or polished, is close to that fulfillment...
...school in Manhattan, all sorts of things other than magnolia hung heavy in the air, notably suffragists, single-taxers and Socialists. It was a Red dead sea full of poor fish dreaming of a bookless future. The biggest catch in it was Upton Sinclair, most renowned of muckrakers. whose novel The Jungle had assaulted the citadels of the Chicago meatpackers with the near-violence of a near-vegetarian. The book had been intended as an attack on porkpacking capitalists; actually it made the U.S. not sick of capitalism but leery of canned meat. "I aimed at the public...
Please! Mr. Balzac (DCA) offers Brigitte in a part appropriately cut to her girlish measure, but in a picture that ought to be cut in half. Brigitte is cast as a girl of good provincial family, who has secretly written a bestselling novel-a fact which so horrifies her father that he ships her off to a convent. Wrong train, of course, and Brigitte winds up in Paris in the company of two young journalists (Daniel Gelin and Robert Hirsch) who have no money but plenty of notions. Brigitte soon gets one of her own, and enters a striptease contest...