Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dissenters, in language clear and vigorous as that of Mr. Holmes: ". . . Resurrecting a rejected construction of the Clayton Act and extending a policy strictly limited by the Congress itself in the Norris-LaGuardia Act, seems ... a usurpation by the courts of the function of the Congress not only novel but fraught . . . with the most serious dangers. ... I venture to say that no court has ever undertaken so radically to legislate where Congress has refused...
...those years Carson Mc-Cullers grew up in Columbus, Ga. with a hopeless passion for good music, fine writing, kindly human relationships. Her family was not well off, her opportunities were limited, her observations bitter. At 20 she married a fellow Southerner and started work on her first novel, a long, cloudy story of a deaf-mute. Appearing last year under the publishers' makeshift title of The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, it won great critical acclaim. With the money from her book, Carson McCullers moved to Manhattan in search of kindred spirits...
Somehow amid the sherry bottles, the inchoate housekeeping, the atonal music and the inspired chitchat, Carson got on with her writing. Then, on doctor's advice, she returned to her family in the South' for rest. This week her second novel was published, under a title (this time) of her own choosing: Reflections in a Golden Eye. It is not the work of a normal 24-year-old girl...
...general theme of Australian Patrick White's novel is that the living and the dead are sworn enemies, that the archenemies of living hope are the indifferent, "the stultifying, the living dead." This fervently stated theme is worked out too intricately in personal terms to make much general sense. But the work-out is an uncommonly searching and sordid study of three middleclass, pre-war Britons...
Concerning Eli Whitney, scholars have ginned from history only a few pale fluffs of information. Roger Burlingame, social-minded historian of U. S. invention (Engines of Democracy, etc.), has woven these factual fluffs, plus a few skeins of imaginative ersatz, into an attractive fabric which is part novel, part biography: Whittling Boy-the Story of Eli Whitney...