Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS, by Joyce Carol Gates. In a season of female discontent, this heroine is a poor girl determined to make good, but fated to go mad. A naturalistic novel of considerable power...
...HALL OF MIRRORS, by Robert Stone. A first novel about three castoffs of American society who come to rest in New Orleans. Author Stone has achieved a rare combination of humor, despair and moral wrath...
...what was being taught in the schools of France, the masters and deans can estimate at certain designated hours the activities going on in a fair proportion of Harvard Houses. The rule of thumb by which the masters calculate the number of parietal hours belongs more appropriately in a novel by Jonathan Swift. Are they saying that below a certain number per week the morality and virtue of the student body is being safeguarded, and that above that number dissipation and reduced efficiency are likely...
...Hitler's Germany -as when Torless rather ponderously testifies at a school-board inquiry into Basini's death that "there is no boundary between a good world and an evil world: they run together and very normal people can spread terror." Otherwise, Young Torless, adapted from the novel by Robert Musil, is a perfect-and perfectly chilling-evocation of the underside of a vanished...
...ingredients is missing from this new novel by the author of Battle Cry and Exodus. The men are a bit on the wooden side, the women and all the subplots largely unbelievable, but once again the West is triumphant-just barely. Unfortunately, for his purposes Uris finds it necessary to portray France's Charles de Gaulle as a fatuous numskull, and though le grand Charles has his share of faults, congenital stupidity is not one of them. Besides, a writer of Uris' commercial talents should think twice before trying to put words in the mouth...