Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Regimen of Recapitulation. The patterning method was devised in the early 1950s by Physical Therapist Glenn J. Doman and Psychologist Carl Delacato. To apply the novel technique, they organized Philadelphia's Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential. The therapy is based on a highly disputed hypothesis. According to the Doman-Delacato theory, impairment of speech, vision and manual skills can be caused by the interruption of a child's normal progress from creeping to crawling to walking. Discarding standard evaluation systems and using an elaborate diagnostic scheme of their own, Doman and Delacato classify retarded children...
...wine merchant of prose-witty, luxuriant, Latinate-Rolfe poured out a minor masterpiece of wish fulfillment in his novel Hadrian VII, an account of how a once-rejected candidate for the priesthood was astonishingly elected Pope out of a clear blue Roman sky. Now Hadrian has been skillfully dramatized by Peter Luke, who also relies on A.J.A. Symons' biography of Rolfe, The Quest for Corvo. The result is an effulgent theatrical success in a wan London dramatic season...
...play's climactic scene finds Rolfe (who is called George Arthur Rose in the novel) gossiping with his bishop about the long drawn-out election of a new Pope. With malice towards everyone, Rolfe is as agile as a marmoset, and a sharp-toothed incessant talker. The talk is hushed as chanting begins in the rear of the theater. With measured tread, the Sacred College advances down the two long aisles in a swirl of scarlet and incense. As the cardinals reach the stage, they pause before the bishop and the priest: "Wilt thou accept pontificality?" Rolfe turns...
...finish, since the play-bizarre, hallucinatory and electrifying-is framed within a play. Hadrian VII ends where it begins, in the bare, shabby lodgings of an eccentric, starving, middle-aged writer named Frederick William Rolfe as the bailiffs arrive to strip him even of the manuscript of his novel. The papal reign has all been a dream, an illusion: the primal stuff of theater...
...official engines of conscience and convenience have rehabilitated Bulgakov. Last year the Soviets printed his Faustian novel The Master and Margarita, a rowdy satire written three decades ago that treats the Devil and the literary world of Moscow in the 1930s with equal seriousness (TIME, Oct. 27). The book was a great success in Russia and in the U.S. In 1965, Soviet literary authorities printed Black Snow, another satirical novel from Bulgakov's trunk. This is the book that leaves the great Stanislavsky with sour cream on his face...