Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Homma, who flew from Tokyo as a character witness for her husband, described him to reporters as a bookish poet, "kind and considerate to his wife, servants and children." He dabbled in Chinese poetry, liked "serious literature," was especially fond of Galsworthy and Shaw. His favorite English-language novel: Gone With the Wind. (Army Intelligence said that he read a chapter nightly on Bataan before retiring, asked Tokyo to rush him the movie "when the Japanese land in California...
...served with the Communist-dominated Front National). Now he is France's most discussed writer: his temple, the respectably bohemian Cafe de Flore on the Left Bank. There he spends most of his writing and preaching day. Simultaneously he works on a philosophic book, a play, a novel, a host of articles...
...planned All Quiet on the Western Front as an "antiwar book." Said he: "I was simply interested in portraying the reaction of youth facing death." To writer Remarque the really effective anti-war book would be a picture-book. Nevertheless he was still writing, was following up a new novel (see BOOKS) with yet another, about German crimes and German mistakes. "The human mind forgets too quickly," explained between-the-wars best-seller Remarque. "The simple fact that a man has survived the war . . . makes him, after a short time, remember war as a grand adventure...
When Paramount Pictures Inc. decided to film The Lost Weekend, the horrendous novel about a dipsomaniac, it also uncorked a stream of scuttlebutt. Tongues wagged that the liquor industry was trying to stop Paramount, had tried to buy it off with $2,000,000, etc. Last week, as the movie won the plaudits of critics & public, Seagram-Distillers Corp. added...
Author Weiskopf packs into his novel a host of characters whose stumbling, often shady, approach to life neatly matches Austria's equally stumbling and shady progress into war. Twilight on the Danube glimmers romantically with bluebearded armament manufacturers, handsome intelligence officers, youthful idealists, and tea-party gargle about actresses and the disturbed condition of Balkan affairs. By the time the fatal shot has been fired at Sarajevo, Publisher Reither has found and lost his last and greatest love, and his entire family have fallen victims to their own dreams and to the Empire's infectious blend of sloppiness...