Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Poet William Rose Benét and Authoress Marcia Davenport said they had read the novel in galley proofs, and denounced the "political" campaign. In no time at all the Communist drive to suppress The Fifth Seal had turned into a fine publicity boom...
...Party had ganged up on the Book-of-the-Month Club's choice for May, Mark Aldanov's novel The Fifth Seal (Scribner's; $3). The Daily Worker opened the attack with a letter demanding that the club withdraw the novel as "subtly and viciously anti-Soviet." Then the machinery started turning whereby the Party gets a wide assortment of innocent bystanders and fellow travelers to forward the assassination. Labor unions, civic groups and authors received unsigned memorandums, urging protests; many obliged. Protests were made by Sculptor Jo Davidson, Artist Rockwell Kent, Poet Alfred Kreymborg, Poetess Genevieve...
...three-dimensional psychological portrait of Albert Lory not only has many indistinct patches, it also seems to belong in a French novel rather than on the screen. This miscarriage of form is not helped by hackneyed studio settings and self-conscious photography - audiences may feel that Hamlet and Hamlet's descendants were not meant for Hollywood...
...Lewis remains a first-rate writer. Let's just sit this one out." The time has come for readers to swarm back into the ballroom. In Gideon Planish, his 18th novel, the Nobel Prizewinner has the old shillelagh out and cracks it on the skulls of the "organizators" and "philanthrobbers" who man the huge U.S. industry of fundraising...
...passion for extremes; the 6 ft. 4 in. Salathiel Albine with muscles "like fluid oak wood" and the movements of "a young male panther" sets the superscale that marks the whole work for good and bad. And in his eager use of sentimental aspects of the Scottish border novel, Allen is capable of sinking to turgid depths, of causing a betrayed girl to cry out passionately against her ducal seducer...