Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...idea turns out to be neither novel nor bright. All that Marlene Dietrich could possibly prove in such a role is her competence as a comedienne, which she has already repeatedly proved, with much better material. The deliberate liquidation of all her other assets seems as pound foolish as it would be to cast Garbo as Topsy...
...year in which lovers of history and biography could add a few books to their libraries, but good fiction, poetry and criticism were even rarer than in arid 1946. There was no U.S. novel as good as last year's Pulitzer Prizewinning All the King's Men, no new poet as gifted as Robert Lowell, whose Lord Weary's Castle had also won a Pulitzer Prize. Many publishers said frankly that they couldn't take chances with untried talent: their production costs were 75% higher than in 1941, and they needed surefire books. Quality, which...
Willa Gather died, and readers recognized the passing of a true artist. Theodore Dreiser's final novel provided reminiscent readers with more of the honest pulp into which that slow, bewildered mill of meditation converted the tough timber of life. Booth Tarkington's last unfinished story faintly echoed the springtime tones that he caught from young middle-class voices in another...
Sinclair Lewis produced a novel that outsold anything he had ever written, including much better novels. Kingsblood Royal, his 19th novel, a crudely black & white dramatization of racial prejudice in a Midwestern town, hit an exposed nerve of U.S. society. So did a rash of other race-relations novels (led by Laura Hobson's Gentleman's Agreement). They were no doubt well-intended, but most were conscientious catastrophes, shrill and thin-blooded...
...Middle Men. Most of these big names were names of the '20s; what of the strong men of the '30s? Ernest Hemingway, perfectionist in style and poet of action, was sweating out a new novel in Cuba. William Faulkner lay fallow, having produced from the rich river bottom of his imagination enough circumstantial fantasies to keep students of the novel and the South in a daze for years. John Steinbeck's The Wayward Bus displayed his sensory gifts and grasp of underdog U.S. types, but these qualities failed to counterbalance a cheap plot. In The Pearl, published...