Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...much discussed mixed system geared to the U.S. is now being advocated by Law Professors Robert E. Keeton of Harvard and Jeffrey O'Connell of the University of Illinois. In their book After Cars Crash, they propose a novel form of auto insurance called "Basic Protection," which would pay benefits more widely and efficiently, yet preserve both private enterprise and the right to file lawsuits for severe injury and economic loss...
...clumsy Broadway adaptation by Mrs. Jay Allen of a Muriel Spark novel, the drama focuses on the havoc created by an invincibly dedicated teacher who stimulates the imaginations of adolescent girls with her own feverish fantasies of love and life. "I put old heads on young shoulders," Miss
From Mistakes, Profit. But brutality is only one side of Bennett's musical style; in his new symphony, and in his film score for John Schlesinger's moody translation of the Hardy novel, Bennett writes with a supple sense of melodic line and quiet, iridescent orchestral color. His Symphony offers the proposition that even at the furthest limits of harmony it is possible to reach a listener with broad melodic lines and ruddy emotionality. Although it speaks the orchestral language with assurance, the Symphony is obviously the work of a man who prefers opera to all other musical...
Last week she rounded off a series of three appearances in a production of La Traviata created for her at the Frankfurt Opera. It was a lusty performance that emphasized the low-life origins of the heroine (who in the Dumas novel went from waif to courtesan to wreck within eight years). Silja contributed considerably to that characterization with a tense, far-ranging voice (31 octaves) and a spectacular stage presence that can flash with the music's mood from tigress to tragedienne. The ultimate tribute to the Silja Traviata was apparent immediately after each performance; at the Frankfurt...
...secret of staying awake through A Change of Skin, the fifth novel by Mexico's Carlos Fuentes, is to approach it as if it were a long, pretentious art movie. It should be read passively, with a relaxed eye toward its techniques, composition, shifts in style. And there should be frequent trips to the popcorn machine. A cheerful open-mindedness is essential because, for all its gothic appurtenances, the novel is a free-swinging romp, a virtuoso performance by an urbane writer who exuberantly deploys a variety of literary tricks-and then plays tricks on the tricks...