Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CAUGHT IN THAT MUSIC, by Seymour Epstein. A distinguished novel set in New York City in the years just before World War II. The hero may stun today's war protesters: to become a "whole man," he enlists in the U.S. Army...
Just where the Supreme Court is going to wind up on obscenity is a matter of no little interest to state courts. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has just tried reading the misty message of the Supreme Court and has ruled that Candy, the 1964 novel, is not obscene. The Pennsylvania court noted that Candy was not "utterly without redeeming social importance." Nor did it think that the book's dominant theme necessarily appealed to a prurient interest. Its most interesting finding was that having been ordered by the Supreme Court to judge the book in the light of contemporary...
Because Review tries to avoid what Buckley calls "extreme apriorism," it has parted company with some dogmatic conservatives. "Objectivist" Ayn Rand, who believes that all human activity should be self-serving, refuses even to appear in the same room with Buckley because the Review panned her novel Atlas Shrugged. Max Eastman resigned, with barbs on both sides, after he accused Buckley of tying conservatism too closely to religion...
...embolism; in Cambridge, Mass. Bedridden in 1926 after an automobile accident, she scrawled manuscripts while propped up in her hospital bed. Less than four years later, three of her plays (Age of Innocence, Jenny, Dishonored Lady) had run on Broadway; in 1931, she received the Pulitzer Prize for her novel, Years of Grace...
Whether in devastated wartime London or an overgrown jungle throbbing to the heart of the matter, the landscape of Graham Greene's novels is inexorably arid and sere. Yet in the midst of a life that is rather worse than purgatory and scarcely better than hell, his characters are touched by a vagrant grace. The Comedians, for which he wrote a script based on his novel, is Greeneland all over again, this time in Haiti. Off a ship and into the damned, doomed country walk three anonyms: Brown, Jones and Smith...