Word: novel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...firm that Stevens expects will "bring many young people more rapidly toward the realization of their abilities." Star client: statuesque Kate Manx Stevens. There are deals in the works with Movie Mogul Joe Schenck, and there are plans for a publishing house, Daystar Press. First book: a hard-cover novel version of Marriage-Go-Round. Author: Leslie Stevens...
Adventure & Achievement. The question of Nobelity aside, Shanti Andia makes clear its author's standing as one of the top men of modern Spanish letters and also explains why Hemingway calls himself Baroja's disciple. In this novel the hero, Shanti, is a Basque sea captain who tells his own story, noting: "A strange existence is mine, and that of other wanderers. During one long epoch, all is adventure, events; and then, in another, there is nothing but commentary on past events." The combination of violent action and desperate search for the meaning of action marks every Hemingway...
Advise and Consent, by Allen Drury. The novel is overlong (616 pages), and the prose something less than sparkling; but New York Timesman Drury knows his way about Washington. Few readers will need any help finding the fact behind the fiction...
Raphael Demos, Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy and Civil Polity, introduces freshmen and upperclassmen to the various doctrines of philosophy in Philosophy 1. For the freshman, especially one who comes from a relatively sheltered religious background, the introduction to such thinkers as Spinoza and Hume may prove novel and disquieting. Demos admits some students may be shaken by an introduction to skepticism...
What strikes the brash newcomer is not only the new and different philosophies; it is not even the fact that he must re-measure the world about him with the new yard-stick of values presented to him by the University; what is most novel, and disturbing, is that he must re-measure himself. If the Jewish student has not gained firmly established roots, if he has not created a self-image, the process can be disconcerting...