Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...retain "the authority to see that the project is carried out properly and not botched along the way." In his multiple role, he has seen to it that the buildings are a far cry from the run-of-the-drafting-board, speculate buildings. Instead, they are full of novel concepts, from aerial pedestrian walkways to 23-story interior courts, none of which Portman thinks would have been realized if he had not maintained complete control...
Wallace Markfield's novel, To An Early Grave, was a bitter, satirical dissection of Manhattan's middle-class Jewish intellectuals, a book peopled by the kind of quarrelsome critics and lecturers who read Partisan Review for laughs. All things considered, it was not a very promising subject for a movie, but Director Sidney Lumet took a crack at it anyway-jettisoning most of Markfield's literary humor in favor of Jewish situation comedy. The result, called Bye Bye Braverman, has a lot to talk about, and nothing much...
...long trail to this assertion began unwinding in Love and Death in the American Novel (1960), in which Fied ler argued that the peculiar kink in American literature was an obsession with death; and that, in turn, inhibited a mature approach to heterosexual themes. As a result, literature fastened on a sublimated homosexual ideal, a kind of interracial buckskin-buddy system of innocent dreamers, running toward what Huck Finn called "the terri tory ahead." Actually, Fiedler said, the dreamers were fleeing from women...
...this was not prophetic vision but alert reporting. He took an extra step, however, by describing the spread of marijuana, peyote and the synthetic mind benders as "the red man's revenge." The Return of the Vanishing American, an examination of the development of the American western novel, is an elaboration on this last point...
...authentic selves can best be seen, says Fiedler, in a myth-busting novel such as John Barth'g The Sot-Weed Factor, which purports to relate the naked, ribald truth about Pocahontas and John Smith. Fiedler also singles out Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, in which a white man and an Indian struggle against being lobotomized (read "castrated") by Big Nurse in a psycho ward. In these contemporary works the spirit of the Vanishing American returns, enabling the authors to debunk traditional notions of how the West was won. This debunking criticizes...