Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Romance and Propaganda. This is the opening situation of Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward, an engaging and still highly readable novel which was also one of the most influential books in U.S. history. Published in 1888, it sold slowly for a year, then suddenly caught on and shortly sold over a million copies. Looking Backward seemed only a sugar-coated romance ; actually, it was propaganda for a Socialist Utopia. Among those who have acknowledged its influence on their thinking have been Mark Twain, William Dean Ho wells, George Bernard Shaw, Thorstein Veblen, John Dewey, Aristide Briand, Ramsay MacDonald, William...
...Open City is a sensitive first novel born of bitter experience. It is a moving, convincing-and timely-account of life in a Jap internment camp, and of what happens to the characters of once easygoing civilians penned up in it. It is set in Manila's Santo Tomas camp, where almost 4,000 prisoners were freed by U.S. troops last fortnight. Author Mydans and her husband Carl, ace LIFE photographer, were imprisoned there for eight and a half months...
...This camp," observes Dr. Busch in the Mydans novel, "is no place for personal dignity. The humiliating lack of privacy was the worst: "Two hundred peoper having ten rooms," the Jap officer had shouted. "Radies having one room. . . ." The Jap commandant even banned hand-holding ("He said such displays of affection offend the morals of his guards"). Food was scarce and nauseating. "The cereal in the dishpans was brown and shimmering on top from the thick layer of crawling weevils that covered it. ..." Under the taut, enervating pressures of the camp, the internees' characters changed, warped, withered...
...photography is the most interesting thing about RKO's quite unoriginal "Experiment Perilous." Seeing things extremely realistically throughout, the camera in many spots has captured the flat, faded look of old daguerreotypes to give this period melodrama authentic flavor. The plot, based on a novel by Margaret Carpenter, and actually a direct steal from "Angel Street" ("Gaslight"), is, by its asked repetition, the picture's most salient fault...
Mystical Movement. Of late, Prabhavananda's teaching has attracted enough expatriate English literary men to create a minor but noteworthy literary movement. Novelist Aldous Huxley, ultra-sophisticate of the 1920s, studied privately with the swami. His latest novel, Time Must Have a Stop, bears the marks of his study. Erudite Philosopher Gerald Heard (Pain, Sex and Time; The Ascent of Humanity), son of an Anglican churchman and a professed agnostic since youth, was another private pupil. Like slick Manhattan Dramatist John van Druten, (Voice of the Turtle, I Remember Mama), both contribute to the society's magazine Vedanta...