Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this time, the Frederick Jackson Turner thesis of the influence of the frontier in American history has been sufficiently overworked to be regarded as no longer novel; Mr. Seldes, in a charmingly written, yet somewhat prolix production naively presents an emasculated re-examination as the key to America's way out. Again we stand at the Cumberland Gap to hear the pounding of the buffalo feet, the tread of the Indian, the tone of the oxcart--and in many more pages than Turner's memorable paragraph. Because of the frontier America need become neither Fascist nor Communist. Just what...
...audience were all conducive to a performance of Charlotte Bronte's "Jane Eyre"; the first was wet and sombre like the moorland wastes of Yorkshire, the second complementary to the Victorian setting, and the third the stiff, conservative type of people like those most shocked by the rebel novel in 1847. Not that the audience did not laugh in the wrong places at the nineteenth-century sentiment; not that they weren't amused at Jane Eyre's maidenly chastity: the way she folded her hands when she sat down before her master and was careful that the needles were stuck...
...novel "Jane Eyre" will always remain an interesting document, because of its intense individuality in an age when conventionality was the rule and never the exception. To appreciate the greatness of Charlotte Bronie's achievement, it is necessary to realize what audacity she displayed in the face of the stern early Victorian period. She shocked her contemporaries by revealing a heroine consumed with passion and broke the traditional theory that woman could only be the loved and not the lover. Though the situation used in the novel had been used many times before, the theme was radical. The former shows...
...Helen Jerome's adaptation of the novel there are faults; in fact many errors of judgment. Considering the difficulty under which she labored, the metamorphosing of a nineteenth-century story into a vehicle that will appeal to the calloused audience of today, as a whole it is a creditable job. To make polished sentiment sound convincing to a sentiment-hating public is not easy. At first Miss Jerome starts off on the wrong foot by encouraging the audience to laugh at the florid language, and then later depending on it to grasp the drama when the same language is used...
With this symbolic nightmare providing a pattern, Author Lawrence (Years Are So Long, If I Have Four Apples) has written a 307-page novel revolving around Luth's employes who are all on the run, and whose panic presumably inspires their employer's bad dreams. The office force of River, Mead & Luth, after seven years of hard times, has begun to churn with dissatisfaction; the young people want higher wages, the old hands want a raise, Luth believes he has done a great deal for his employes by merely keeping them at work. When young, excitable Gregory Marsh...