Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...political oratory. He slipped in sly asides that made listeners guffaw; he made them cry with his exhortation to the fallen nations. Now he lashed Britain's enemies with the splendor of Elizabethan arrogance; now he hissed at them in a way remindful of an old-time dime-novel hero polishing off the villain in the last chapter...
...means dazzling, career as correspondent for the Chicago Tribune and Universal News Service. High point of his career in foreign-news service was a period he spent in India for the Tribune, which netted a close friendship with Mohandas K. Gandhi. A product of that time was a novel about India. He didn't think about publishing it until he scored with Berlin Diary. Now several publishers are dickering...
...money he made from his first novel, Decade (TIME, March 4, 1940), Stephen Longstreet shipped on a de luxe world cruise. It turned out to be the last trip of that kind before the world ended. Out of the journals of this voyage he has made a book incomparably better than Decade, and vastly entertaining. Despite streaks of third-hand Times Square wit and Ben Hechtish newspapermannerisms, it suggests that Longstreet may soon be one of the most readable of U.S. writers...
This, the 1941 Harper Prize ($10,000) novel, is a problem book about marriage among U.S. upper-middle class, eastern-seaboard, Smith-or-Vassar bred, young housewives. It is written in their official dialect, by one of them. For the rest of them, it will probably be the novel of the season...
...English of Beverley, Mass.) lifts this story above the run of woman's-magazine serials by her sincerity, her fondness for detail and her agile-if highly conditioned -intelligence. The husband's work is described, for example, with enthusiasm and at length. (The author thought her novel was about housing, not marriage; but this time the publishers were right.) She handles many emotional atmospheres and tensions with at least charcoal accuracy. Much firsthand observation has evidently gone into the book...