Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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NAVARRO'S IDEA UNIVERSE INSIDE EARTH [TIME, JULY 14] HARDLY NOVEL. THOUSANDS OF AMERICANS, FOLLOWERS OF [KORESHANITY'S CYRUS TEED], BELIEVED THIS EVER SINCE 1870. KORESHAN COLONY AT ESTERO, FLORIDA, NOW A MERE PITIFUL REMNANT, HARDLY REPRESENTATIVE OF THE GALLANT EARLY EFFORTS OF HUNDREDS OF AMERICANS WHO COULD HARDLY BE CLASSED AS IGNORANT OR SUPERSTITIOUS...
...Antonio Duran Navarro lay on his back and gazed at the heavens, I wonder whether he was reading Edgar Rice Burroughs by lantern-light or moonshine? The idea of a universe contained within the earth's crust was conceived by Mr. Burroughs some 25 years ago in his novel Pellucidar [and its predecessor, At the Earth's Core...
Next day the union tried a novel picketing technique. Like many banks, the Brooklyn Trust's doors are adorned by brass handrails. Three women pickets-not bank employees-handcuffed themselves together and linked themselves as a human chain to the door rails, thus blocking the entrance. It took a patrolman with a hacksaw to cut the girls loose. At week's end, the bank said some 50 out of 800 employees were on strike and banking was going on as usual...
...audiences now have a thorough chance to sample the brew that has been boiling furiously in Europe's intellectual teapots. The pontiff and leading practitioner of existentialism is France's stubby (5 ft.), scholarly Jean-Paul Sartre. His Age of Reason is a dolorous, idea-clotted novel full of moldy characters and philosophic yawpings about life. It is sure to win its author some critical praise. It is not likely to earn his fashion many wearers...
Like Sartre's first novel, La Nausée (Nausea), and his plays (TIME, Dec. 9), The Age of Reason is an attempt to translate philosophy into fiction. The Age of Reason is the first volume of a trilogy which will chart the salvation of contemporary man. In this first installment, however, nobody is saved; the characters are condemned, instead, to simmer in their own existentialist juices-a form of Sartrian purgatory from which they all will presumably be able to free themselves in the other two books...