Word: novelistically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that pants cannot be sexy; they are, after all, the costume of the harem. Nor are precedents lacking: one of Joan of Arc's first requests to the Dauphin was permission to don man's armor. Sweden's Queen Christina gloried in pants, as did Novelist George Sand. Brigitte Bardot has been stuffing herself into blue jeans for a decade; and today slacks are the starlet's uniform...
Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife has placed the whooping crane on its "Rare and Endangered" list and is studying ways of breeding it in captivity. Mrs. McNulty, a freelance writer and the widow of Novelist John McNulty (Third Avenue, New York), avoids polemics but not passion as she examines the history of human indifference and hostility that conspired for so long against the whooping crane. She adds suspense to the story, too, as she traces the efforts of conservationists to locate the big birds' nesting regions in the Canadian far north and provide them with wintering grounds...
...there is more in the novel than meets the eye. Most of the important events take place offstage, but what does go on is baffling enough. Is Nellie head of a spirtualist cell or a covin? It is certainly one of the most peculiar books ever written by a novelist of undoubtedly great talents...
...called a veteran young writer. His talent has been recognized and treasured since he was old enough to vote. He is no longer transfixed by the pool of childhood memories, but has become interested in the faces looking over the shoulder of Narcissus. There he should find a novelist's theme to match his virtuosity...
...against walls," says Rumania's Petru Dumitriu, who proved his point in 1960 by leaping through the Iron Curtain to settle in the West. What Dumitriu left behind in Bucharest was a rising career as the Communist Party's most applauded novelist, a ranking position as editor of Rumania's most important literary magazine and director of the State Publishing House. What he brought with him was an analytical eye and an inkwell full of ideals...