Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stomach ailments, severe headaches, and extreme insomnia. Dressed in pallbearer black, he drags out his days on a birdlike diet of bread crusts and boiled vegetables, in a barren, unheated apartment, aggressively campaigning to stimulate public interest in despondency.* Teppe has even offered a prize for the best Dolorist novel - "a scientific anatomy of pain, not a tepid caricature of misery." Teppe warns his disciples to shun society. Because nobody dares utter the complete truth, which is too cruel for people to withstand, "every conversation is a lie." Excitement too must be avoided ("enthusiasm is our enemy"). The biggest disillusionment...
Last week Pastor Perkins had won new fame. His second novel, Antioch Actress, a chiaroscuro tale of early Christian heroism v. degenerate Roman paganism, was made the April choice of the Religious Book Club...
...literary life began in 1910, when, to stimulate attendance at his church in San Francisco, he wrote a 50,000-word Biblical novel called The Emperor's Physician and read it, a chapter at a time, to his congregation. With the beginning of World War II and the growing audience for books with a Christian theme, Author Perkins resurrected the manuscript, rewrote and expanded it, got it published. The People's Book Club (operated by Sears, Roebuck) selected it for Christmas 1944, plugged its sales to nearly 250,000 copies...
Kitty was taken from a lending-library novel of the same name by Rosamond Marshall. Not the least remarkable thing about the movie is the blandness with which it denatures the heroine of the original book-as loose, if not as active, a hussy as the notorious Fanny Hill. Sample dialogue from the book: "His naked body was darker than the linen sheet on which he rested. ... I bent over him and kissed him the way he had kissed me. . . . Suddenly his teeth bit into my flesh. I gave a little moan...
...many years he floats along on uneasy rationalizations about the sacred stewardship of wealth (which he honestly tries to live up to). When his associates mire themselves and their bank deeper & deeper in crooked, within-the-law self-interest, he can stay silent no longer. In part the novel is a study of the losing struggle between the moribund U.S. religious sense and proliferating U.S. materialism...