Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cleveland, a landlord named Arthur Clark hit on a novel way of evicting tenants who refused to pay more than OPA rents. He hired a gang of thugs, equipped them with pistols, blackjacks, clubs and a baseball bat, sicked them on his tenants. One tenant died of a cracked skull. Last week Clark and one thug were convicted of second-degree murder, sentenced to life imprisonment...
...Butcher, T. E. Lawrence-have put it into their own idioms, neither Homer's nor that of poetry. E. V. Rieu's is the best of the more modest prose translations intended as transparencies, making it easy for the reader to follow the Odyssey as a wondrous novel of adventure...
...least two years competing with Professor Schlesinger's History 63. As an added fillip, Fine Arts 7f, a survey course in American painting, completes the fatal trilogy in Group IV. To fill the serious gap in American literature offerings, Professor Murdock is repeating his course on the American novel in the nineteenth century, English 170c. But because it has been relegated to Group XIII, it will do those who are enrolled in Professor Mayo's History 67, American Biography, no good at all, for it, too, is in Group XIII...
...difference due, in large part, to the fact that the popular writers seemed to dramatize without thinking, and the unpopular writers to think without dramatizing. Nearest U.S. approach to a good combination of thought and drama was Robert Penn Warren's All the King's Men, a novel about the Huey Long regime. Among the best of the rest: Conrad Richter's The Fields, Eudora Welty's Delta Wedding, Christina Stead's Letty Fox, Sholem Asch's East River, Jerome Weidman's Too Early to Tell...
...young American favorites showed up short of wind, but still long-winded. The late Theodore Dreiser's last novel, The Bulwark, had the weight, but not the distinction, of a Percheron. Upton Sinclair's A World to Win did no more than mark another 600-odd pages in the improbable progress of Hero Lanny Budd. William Saroyan's The Adventures of Wesley Jackson presented a moist and flaccid soul behind a bold front. Pearl Buck's Pavilion of Women was not of great price...