Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Force of Evil, based on Ira Wolfert's novel Tucker's People, takes too long to say too little, and it uses too much high-flown language in dealing with its lowbrow characters. Unable to keep the story alive with dialogue and camera, Director-Scenarist Abraham Polonsky sometimes puts his star on the sound track as narrator. This leads to some confusion: Has the novel been made into a movie, or is it just being read aloud, with a pictorial background...
...novel, The Grand Design seldom clicks. Characters wander in & out of its pages, drifting on the political tide. A few, easily recognizable, will cause gossip, but not many are vivid enough to arouse much interest. Some of the leading ones...
Having repudiated the two totalitarian extremes, Dos Passos faced the tough job of making the next novel in his series a defense of his liberal values. Next week, after delays caused by Dos Passos' war reporting and a highway accident which took his wife's life and cost him an eye, that novel will come out. The Grand Design contains the expected defense of liberalism, but it speaks in a worried, hesitant, uncertain voice in which there is little of the power of U.S.A...
...first novel in this new series, Adventures of a Young Man, told the raw, resentful story of middle-class Radical Glenn Spotswood who became a Red organizer, was forced to leave his striking worker comrades in the lurch after a twist of party line, was expelled from the party for "deviations," and then died a lonely death in Spain at the hands of his ex-comrades...
...writing, he gets a warm note from "Mr. Vampire," a literary editor: "I was so interested to meet you the other night . . . [I have been] looking for someone to [review] the Nonesuch Boswell, and your name cropped up." Mr. Shelleyblake is flattered, and relieved to lay aside his dreadful novel; and his review is enjoyed by all. Unfortunately, his new novel, when at last it appears, is not; but by then Mr. Shelleyblake has become another man, living in another world...