Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dozen Don Quixotes. Except for a brief respite after the revolution of 1848, Daumier waged a running battle with the censors. When they bore down too hard, he turned from political to social satire, illustrated his favorite novel Don Quixote a dozen times, and ultimately got around to the easel-paintings-the blacksmiths and laundresses, as dignified as Rembrandt's illustrations of the Bible-on which his reputation as a 19th Century master largely rests...
Died. Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, 48, invalid widow of Jazz Age Novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald; in a fire which destroyed a building of the Highland Hospital (for mental and nervous diseases); in Asheville, N.C. A writer herself (Save Me the Waltz, a thinly disguised autobiographical novel), she married Fitzgerald a few weeks after his first novel (This Side of Paradise) came out, was once described as ."the brilliant counterpart of the heroines of his novels...
Cornered Children. The second book, Silent Children, is a novel by China's Mai Mai Sze (pronounced roughly may may she), daughter of a former Chinese Ambassador to Washington. It cannot claim to rank with Innocents. But its strength lies in its dramatic presentation of an appalling contemporary problem-the "dispossessed children" of World War II. While Author Barker's juveniles lose their innocence in relatively peaceful country areas of wartime England, Author Sze's homeless ragamuffins live in a camp on the mud flats of an Eastern river, and make sorties into a nearby city...
...false enticements of The Newsmagazine where he sells his soul for handsome office trappings and scampering office boys. Through the lives of these three and the circle around them runs a pattern of restlessness and failure to find self, high searching morality and low lust. Miller has written a novel that is good because it isolates and preserves for time ahead the tenor and taste of a certain significant period's play on some significant people. It verges toward the second-rate when it tackles large issues and attempts a sweep of which it is apparently incapable...
...integrity of Gene Wenisloski--an emotional attachment extending beyond Wenisloski's death under fire. And Peter's brief stop in Chicago to look up Harry Myers, renegade Communist turned boy's settlement leader, burns with a quality which had it been transposed into a consistent thread for the entire novel would have spelled far greater stature...