Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Late George Apley (20th Century-Fox), as a J. P. Marquand novel, was a cleverly genteel variant on the water-drip torture. The story told, in deadpan style, of the gradual destructiveness of a whole mode of life. Like the play which was made from the novel, the movie sacrifices the subtleties of gradualism for dramatic frame and focus...
...which is close to the Anglo-Saxon), their memories and legends of old Friesland. The story is told almost season by season, chore by chore. Author Feikema excels in descriptions of plowing, cultivating, reaping, threshing. Sometimes sensitively, sometimes awkwardly, sometimes with embarrassing rhetoric he has written a unique regional novel...
...this novel, 18 years of life on an Iowa farm are itemized with raw fidelity and strapping lyricism. Subtitled "a novel of faith in the earth," it is also a novel of bitterness over the gutting and misuse of the earth by first-and second-generation U.S. settlers. The theme is large, simple and an incitement to soil conservation. At times the treatment has an earthy swell and eloquence. But Author Feikema works his lesson so hard that before readers reach the end of the book, they will be worn...
Completely ignoring the forty-year-old axiom that a horse opera is judged solely by the amount of gore sprayed around the set, Republic Pictures have refused to fob off a thousand rounds of ammunition as entertainment and have turned out a refreshingly novel movie. Although the "Angel and the Badman" contains enough of the usual ingredients to satisfy any grammar school desperado, the clever and entirely feasible plot will be a welcome relief to gun-shy adults...
Handbook for the Future. Today in Russia Dostoevsky's works are officially permitted, but not encouraged for mass reading. This fact, coupled with the novel's own complexities, has caused A Raw Youth to be neglected in its motherland. Dostoevsky himself hoped that his cumbersome novel would have somewhat more survival value. In a kind of confession of failure he wrote at the end of it: "When the angry strife of the day has passed . . . then a future artist will discover beautiful forms for depicting past lawlessness and chaos! Then such [works as this] so long as they...