Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cambridge, Bill wrote a treatise on an ideal social economy, entitled it "Hesperia" (which his schoolmates nicknamed "Hysteria"). He began by locating his ideal community in a desirable latitude and longitude, and outlined many working economic features such as the staggered day of rest, etc., which seemed novel to us at the time. Later, by coincidence, the Soviet system embodied this and other devices in its own administration...
From this point on, Author Fast's latest historical novel argues with his customary expertness and conviction that the South Carolina experiment did not fail, but was destroyed after it had succeeded...
...makes the fabric more comfortable for summer wear by virtue of the long gashes made all over the body of the shirt. Then various solutions of chemicals are sprayed indiscriminately over the shirt until various discolorations and bleachings appear. Then the shirts are ready for pressing. This is the novel operation of the system. The shirts for the Mid-Off school are placed all on a table. Sixteen of the largest women in nearby Brighton then sit upon the shirts until they are pressed into the fine smooth job which you all know so well. Then just before the shirts...
...them is Grand father Romulus Hanks, late Captain of the 117th Iowa.) It is crowded with pas sages of adolescent naughtiness, self-conscious profanity and dreamy, implausible and interminable accounts of old Southern vices. Its battle scenes are compounded reports of decapitations, disembowelings, castrations. It is a novel of death without grief, fornication without intimacy (or even without much interest), violence without terror...
...mighty allegory of the fall and resurrection of mankind." (Tim Finnegan was originally the hero of an Irish vaudeville song who falls off a ladder and is thought to be dead until a friend splashes whiskey over him at the funeral wake.) The four parts of Joyce's novel reflect Italian Philosopher Giovanni Battista Vice's theory that history eternally passes and repasses through four phases: theocratic, aristocratic, democratic, chaotic. Finnegans Wake suggests that life has again reached the stage of chaos and is awaiting a divine thunderclap that will bring the world to its senses and start...