Word: novel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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John and Roy Boulting, producer and director respectively, have taken a satiric novel by Henry Cecil and the essential cast of Private's Progress to create an other socially insignificant, modest, light-hearted comedy which keeps the audience chuckling...
Astronomers at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Abservatory are not trying to "think up novel forces" to explain slight deviations in the orbital behavior of the Russian third stage rocket. These deviations have not been explainable thus far in terms of known forces acting on the object...
...novel the whole publishing world is buzzing about! . . . Exposes the commercial snake pit of the book world where power-hungry men and love-hungry women struggle for survival and fulfillment." So say the ads. Actually, The Brain Pickers is a shoddy novel by Hallie Burnett, wife of Author Whit Burnett, that reveals very little about the publishing business, although it may start a sort of human Tangle Towns contest as to the possible identity of its leading, characters...
...novel? Is it a nightmare? Is it Superman-in the comic-strip or the Nietzschean version? During the book's opening passages-for 300 or 400 pages, that is-the reader cannot be sure. Then the truth emerges: Author Ayn Rand, a sort of literary Horsewoman of the Apocalypse, is smashing the world with half a million words in order to rebuild it according to her own philosophy. And that philosophy must be read to be disbelieved...
...Strange One. From Calder Willingham's novel (End As a Man)-a slick, sadistic thriller about a Southern military academy and a notable film debut for Broadway Actor Ben Gazzara (TIME, April...