Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Written when Huey P. Long was still alive, the novel represented U. S. Fascism as making headway in 1936. Last week, with no such trend in sight, the time was billed in the programs as "Very Soon-or Never." The main outlines of the novel are preserved, but instead of trying to dramatize a patchwork of fragments from the book, Collaborators Lewis & Moffitt wisely created some new incidents on which to prop the play. One of them shows Corpo troops going from house to house to break radio tubes because Senator Trowbridge is broadcasting news of Corpo atrocities from Canada...
Last week a company called Parabond Corp. of America, in Cambridge, Mass., disclosed its novel solution, which has been adopted by Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts. Parabond is a rubber latex compound poured into the expansion joints, where it jells. To prevent the usual separation from the concrete, it has a strong adhesive mixture. To prevent bulging, it is thickly interlarded with puffed wheat. The porous globules of puffed wheat constitute bubbles in the mixture, permitting the latex to give without forming a ridge across the highway...
...Last week a 29-year-old novelist made a bold attempt to correct this omission with an extraordinary, 415-page work of fiction in which the automobile, with its moving parts, time payments and advantages as a theatre for youthful lovemaking, served as the central figure. Not exactly a novel, Clutch and Differential is by George Weller, whose first book, Not to Eat, Not for Love, published three years ago, was a witty college story laid in his alma mater, Harvard. The elusive theme of his new work is taken from an automobile sales circular: "Bodies never cease changing...
COURTHOUSE SQUARE-Hamilton Basso -Scribner ($2.50). Deftly written novel about a novelist who sickens of New York intellectual life, returns after ten years to his birthplace in a small Southern town, narrowly escapes lynching when he disturbs fellow-townsmen's ideas about Negroes...
...with measurable success, sufficient, at least, to continue to accord it the highest hopes. Several more years will do much to stabilize the college record, then begin to demonstrate the record in the world. Then, and then only, will definite conclusions be warranted. Meanwhile the gradual fruition of this novel and daring educational conception can be watched with intense interest...