Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the opening months of college, the newcomer is faced with the difficult task of orienting himself in a novel environment. With college curricula and compulsory athletics engaging the major part of his attention, he has little opportunity to meet the members of his class. His acquaintances are limited to the men coming from his own preparatory school and the small number whom he has met in his dormitory and classes. Suddenly confronted with a list of candidates for class officers, he is totally unqualified to make an intelligent choice and often votes blindly for the men whose exploits...
Speculators on the Pulitzer Prize winning novel for 1934, already betting heavily on Ruth Suckow's The Folks (TIME, Oct. 1), saw another feminine candidate loom on the horizon last week. Josephine Herbst's The Executioner Waits has little to do with the original conditions of the Pulitzer bequest ("wholesome atmosphere" and "highest standard of American manners and manhood"), but it conforms to the present standard: it is one of the best U. S. novels...
...Author Herbst implies, "the executioner waits." Of the Trexler descendants who are economically on the down grade, most do what they can to keep from slipping farther, think of little else besides; but a few are so close to the ground that their ears hear a prophetic rumbling. A novel without a hero. The Executioner Waits is a modern tragedy in the most present sense: its changing choruses are spoken by and for plain people, in terms as actual as last week's events. But Author Herbst is no journalistic realist, no pamphleteer of Communism. Her concern...
...these columns to attempt anything so hollowly pretentious as a "criticism" of Graumont's superb film, "Power." Suffice it to say that this picture comes mighty close to marking the very peak of cinema achievement. Lion Feuchtwanger's magnificent novel "Macht" has been worked into a movie of truly gigantic proportions, a profoundly stirring and stimulating drama of that complex and fascinating thing which is the very soul of man. Love, power, lust, all the many facets of human emotion are here portrayed with an insight and an almost Biblical beauty. This is stark, feeling drama consummately acted and constructed...
...stages of physical exhaustion. Blood tests are systematically taken, and the blood analyzed to find out the amount of lactic acid, presence of which is the chief cause of fatigue. Test-tubes, beakers, flasks, burners, and numerous scientific devices make this experimental room vaguely reminiscent of a Sax Rohmer novel or the mid-year nightmares of Chem A students...