Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Baloney about Money. Yet there is a new psychological mood behind the 1967 strikes. Industrial shutdowns, after all, are hardly novel, but mass strikes of teachers and municipal employees, who supply services essential to an orderly community, are unprecedented in the U.S.-and ominous in every way. Teachers, in particular, seem to have inherited their aggressiveness from the civil rights movement, which has demonstrated that sometimes the best way to get what is wanted or needed is simply to take it, regardless of laws or traditions. "Let the politicians stop playing patsy," said a striking New York teacher, who could...
...seemed absent from his own reviews. Alfred Kazin recalls a sideswipe in which Jarrell wrote that some crypto poet's work had "hidden treasures," but that finding them was "like looking for the gold in sea water." This sort of wit provided the sparkle to his otherwise brackish novel, Pictures from an Institution...
Jessie is only one of the daydreamers who wander through this inventive, whimsical first novel about private rebellions in suburbia. Jay, 22, has given up everything to become the disciple of a crackpot who makes clandestine radio broadcasts about morality. Cathy, aged 12, is trying to decide whether God goes around naked or lives in a cemetery. Ethel, 23, hears voices, hates her husband, resents her baby, and is determined to become a prostitute in her spare time. And there is Teddy, the five-year-old prodigy who is Author Constable's hero. Teddy uses geodesies to keep track...
After a publisher produces two hits, a good move is to find a third book that mates them. Simon & Schuster boasts one of the year's biggest Jewish novels, The Chosen, as well as a more lighthearted Catholic bestseller, The Secret of Santa Vittoria. Their publishing offspring is a Catholic-Jewish novel-specifically the story of a custody fight between the two faiths that becomes a body-snatching contest...
...Alaska a novel. Beyond that, they prefer to pass all judgments on to the readers. Says the jacket blurb: "There will be some who say Why Are We in Vietnam? is the first classic Norman Mailer has written. Others are sure to suggest it is the most foul-mouthed book to come along since publishers were pups...