Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last week Thomas Sigismund Stribling hung his hat in the U. S. Hall of Fame. From unconsidered and inconsiderable beginnings he had made his slow, steady way to the forefront of U. S. letters. When in 1931 he published the first part (The Forge) of his triple-decker novel of the South, it caused little stir. The second volume (The Store) won him the Pulitzer Prize and was chosen by the Literary Guild. Last week appeared the final part of Author Stribling's trilogy (Unfinished Cathedral), which in turn was chosen by the Literary Guild. But Author Stribling...
...bachelor he is married. Familiar with hackwriting, he served a long apprenticeship turning out Sunday School stories, detectification, melodrama. When he wrote Teeftallow (1926), a story of his Tennessee hill country, critics first began to notice him. Last April U. S. radio-listeners followed suit, when his radio novel, Conflict, began to be broadcast over the Columbia network. Author Stribling is enthusiastic over radio as a literary medium, says its sound effects free the author "from an immense labor of description," considers it "the most perfect instrument for the artistic imagination yet devised...
Like a paleontologist who reconstructs what might have been a dinosaur from a fragment of its jawbone, Evelyn Scott has built a life-size novel from a few strangers' photographs. In her rented East Anglian cottage Author Scott found herself wondering about the people whose group pictures helped adorn the walls, soon was giving names, relationships, histories to their different faces. Though she does not claim infallibility for her method, she implies that a knowledge of contemporary types is all a novelist requires for such a reconstruction: "For the historian, the tombs of Egypt and his own contemporary mentality...
Fifteen million Americans are to have a opportunity to tell what they think of the New Deal. They will participate in a straw vote of a novel kind. It will be a secret ballot. It will be widely accepted as a reflection of the state of the public mind with respect to the policies of the Roosevelt Administration because it will be conducted by the Literary Digest, which in forecasting election results by this method has shown that it is remarkably accurate in telling how the American nation will vote. There would seem to be no reason why it should...
Under the supervision of Arnett McKennan '87 who is also are chairman of the Freshman Red Book, the Union decorations are rapidly taking shape. The scheme is to be worked out is a modernistic manner in red and blue cellophane, and is expected to provide novel and striking affects...