Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...guns of U.S. newspaper book reviewing greeted Rome Hanks last fort night with the most thunderous salvo that has welcomed a first novel since Gone With The Wind. It was a "superb achieve ment" to the New York Times and "a beautiful and terrible book" to the Herald Tribune; a "powerful, intense and tre mendous story" to the Chicago Sun; "extraordinary, impressive, raw, vital, brutal and alive" to the San Francisco Chronicle...
...recently on the subject of foreign-born city planners with notions about the U.S. (TIME, July 24). His salvos have been charged with such powder as: "[the imported planner] is hurting our architecture by advocating a philosophy which doesn't belong here and fundamentally offers nothing more novel than the lally column and the two-by-four timber...
...Mexico City by his parents the same year. Since then, he has covered every continent except Australia, on every conveyance from a Volga River steamer to a dromedary-and very often on Shank's mare. Meanwhile he has published 18 books. (Best known: U.S.A., a three-panel novel of U.S. life and character circa World...
Dragon Seed (M.G.M.) is a kind of slant-eyed North Star (TIME, Nov. 8). A two-and-a-half-hour picturization of Pearl Buck's best-selling novel (TIME, Jan. 26, 1942) about China at war. Often awkward and pretentious, it nevertheless has moments of moral and dramatic grandeur...
...leftish German author of the pow erful novels, Power, The Ugly Duchess, Success, has written a leftish French novel which was inspired by Joan of Arc in somewhat the same way that Franz Werfel's Song of Bernadette was inspired by the Virgin of Lourdes. But Feuchtwanger's inspiration is less successful...