Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...almost as if True Confessions had been caught running installments of a Willa Cather novel: Since daytime radio serials, supposedly adored by "the U.S. housewife," are by common consent the most fatuous of dramas, the discovery of a soap opera that dared to be literate made radio columnists pop-eared...
When Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, aged 44, died of heart disease in Hollywood last winter (TIME, Jan. 27), he left part of a novel which he had been pondering for three years, and a voluminous pile of notes on the unwritten part of the story. There was some talk, then, of having another writer complete the novel from the notes. But Critic Edmund Wilson, friend of Fitzgerald and his "intellectual conscience," chose another way to get this truncated work before the public...
...Cronin's novel, "The Stars Look Down." is a saga of simple working people. The English movie-version best film to enliven local screens in many a month-logically extends the implication of its subject-matter. From a timely oral prologue we learn that the Welsh coal-miners, whose lives are to be dug and coughed and hammered out before us, symbolize the guys-named-Joe "of every nationality and every calling, such as there are the whole world over...
...Diary" and Harold Teen in a semi-autobiography describing the senior year of a clique of Vassar girls. In "Consider the Daisies," however, Miss Gertrude Carrick (with the ink scarcely dry on her sheepskin) returns to her alma mater for the setting of an unusually good, strikingly realistic first novel...
...interest of any male at an Eastern college to peek into a suite at Lathrop Hall, to find that the stresses of Harvard monastic life are duplicated at the Poughkeepsie nunnery, and to eavesdrop on "heifer" sessions-beyond this aspect, "Consider the Daisies" will appeal to undergraduates as a novel of, by, and for collegians. Writing with matured comprehension but with the fresh vigor and enthusiasm of youth. Miss Carrick gives promise of joining the most faithful portrayers of the American scene...