Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though the program they endorsed was not particularly novel, it did make 60 specific recommendations in the fields of law enforcement, education, slum rebuilding and job opportunities that would make slum life more tolerable. While eschewing any hint of political oneupmanship, Rockefeller's bold call for state action undoubtedly helped to solidify his position as the leading spokesman for the G.O.P. on urban problems and one of the few national politicians who have any real understanding of ghetto conditions...
...Down Staircase is a skillful culling of memorable moments from Bel Kaufman's novel about a teacher's struggle in a New York "problem-area" high school. They have been assembled by Writer Tad Mosel and Director Robert Mulligan into an entertainment of high spirits, its sheen unscratched by the book's real point...
Audacious Whispers. Beardsley's figures often seem to be whispering audacious obscenities to each other. What they might be saying is suggested by his only novel, Under the Hill, which employs a curious mixture of four-letter words and effete and esoteric Gallicisms. Recently published by Grove Press ($3.95), the novel is Beardsley's pornographic retelling of the Tannhauser legend. Beardsley never completed the book, but the final quarter has been written according to his plan by Canadian Poet John Glassco. His work ably mimics Beardsley's writing, giving credence to Glassco's boast that...
...discarded wife, the girl friend whose family he once imprisoned, the aging professor whose career he ruined. In fact, Author Mnacko's outrage goes deeper than politics: with Swiftian anger, he condemns the victim as well as the tyrant. As a writer, however, he is no Swift. The novel is at times clumsy and dated: conversations are imagined by the narrator, glances between characters are supposed to be significant enough to stand for a paragraph or so of exposition, flashbacks fly off like the calendar pages in an old movie. But contrivances do not obscure Mnacko's conclusion...
...study in America. Since then he has moved on from Skagit Valley Junior College in Washington State, via the University of Washington, to Cambridge, England. In his autobiography, I Will Try (TIME, April 30, 1965), he told with disarming simplicity how he got there. In this, his first novel, he tells no less appealingly where he began...