Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fifteen years after the publication of his historic novel, Erich Maria Remarque is a retiring, deep-voiced, powerfully built man who enjoys his collections of antique Persian rugs and Chinese figurines as much as his French pictures. For four years he has moved his collections through a series of U.S. hotels and rented houses. The works are casually placed around his rooms, and never hung or lighted in a rigor mortis of possessiveness. Remarque lets his dogs sleep on three or four thicknesses of rare rugs...
...working on his fifth novel, a psychological story about prewar Paris. He does not think of himself as a refugee. When he gets his final citizenship papers he plans to settle in or near Manhattan...
Lieut. General George S. Patton Jr.'s novel-writing wife Beatrice (Blood of The Shark) disclosed that she had been getting poems from her hell-roaring husband, read a couple at Boston's annual Authors Club dinner. In the Woman's Home Companion appeared a Patton so-called poem, God of Battles. Opening quatrain...
Example: when Yale's President Timothy Dwight the Younger demanded that English Instructor Cross drop his idea of giving a course in the "ungodly" and ''sexy" modern novel back in the mid-'gos Cross acquiesced. But he slyly observed that the study of Homer's Iliad woul 1 have to be abolished from courses in Greek, for the Iliad was obviously a story about the illicit intrigue between Paris and Helen. The next year Cross gave his course in the modern novel...
When she dies, Danny makes the great decision, prepares to bum his way to bookloving Manhattan. He will never reach it in a Farrell novel: Novelist Farrell is about to drop Danny in favor of a new character named Bernard Claire. Farrell's next book will report Hero Claire's career among Manhattan's intellectuals during the boom years and the depression. Says Novelist Farrell slyly...