Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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DeFORD, by David Shetzline. In this sensitive first novel, an aging carpenter hangs on to his dignity and memories amidst the defeat and depravity of Skid...
...Gone, by Burton C. Gershfield, an intensely personal treatment of the American Indian seen in modern media, photographed in high contrast solarized color. With blood-red skies surrounding purple-and-green silhouetted Indians, Gershfield synthesizes two unique aspects of American a from two different centuries and creates a novel and moving film...
Such provocation is not forthcoming, however, from most of the works. "La Petite Fille Qui Voulet Entrer a Carmel" is a large collection of plates from a novel by Ernst, which, though they contain strange conglomerations of figures pasted together, and remind us of the association between surealist art and literature, are strangely static and uninteresting as they hang, a quality which unfortunately repeats itself throughout the show. This is partially due to the limited nature of the exhibit--that it is mainly pencil and photoengraving on paper and therefore not so powerful or organically real as much work...
Economics, diplomacy, statecraft, teaching, autobiography, satire and book reviewing are areas on which John Kenneth Galbraith has imposed his imperious rationality (TIME cover, Feb. 16). The Triumph, his first novel, is one of his less successful impositions. Strictly speaking, it is not a novel at all; it is an awkward attempt to put a fictional frame around a critique of U.S. foreign policy, which Galbraith feels is based on an indiscriminate fear of Communism. His characters are hardly more than clothespins colored to represent bureaucratic types. His locale is Puerto Santos, a banana republic where a moderate liberal ousts...
Galbraith's humor usually registers somewhat below Swiftian satire, as when he writes that the Air Force's contingency plans for Puerto Santos calls for bombing "with maximum emphasis on winning the hearts and minds of the people." Much of the novel bears this slightly self-satisfied straining for effect. As a glimpse of Foggy Bottom, The Triumph has its uses; but its tone begins to grate under the suspicion that the author is enjoying himself more than his performance justifies...