Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Geologists have squabbled for a century about the origin of petroleum. Last week M.I.T.'s Technology Review discussed a novel theory...
...likely to include visits from such assorted personages as i) a small businessman seeking publicity for a new type of plumbing joint he had invented, 2) a Government investigator inquiring into the political complexion of the Kansas City Star, 3) a writer looking for special material for his novel, 4) a paste salesman wanting desk space and a telephone, 5) the owner of a coal mine in Alberta on the lookout for unemployed coal miners; telephone calls from all sorts of people asking specific information (e.g., "what's this new country club in town people have been asking about...
...most people won't understand. . . . They approach pictures-not only my own but all works of art-with the mistaken idea that they can understand them after looking at them briefly. Yet these same people would expect to spend several hours on a work of art like a novel...
...average age of a novel," said Maugham, "is 90 days...
...entirety by still fewer. It stands as a monument to the almost incredible industry and endurance of Novelist Romains and his readers. A vast, inchoate panorama, as broad as all Europe and 25 years long, its net effect is more nearly that of a giant notebook than of a novel...