Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Readers will readily identify "the King," Singer Harry Orlando, as Frank Sinatra. With that discovery, all public interest in Morton Cooper's novel should wane-although it probably won't. The author and his publisher have aimed it confidently at the bestseller list, although Cooper's literary defects and unerring tastelessness would fill an office wastebasket. Orlando is an unmitigated bore tirelessly indulging his libido, yearning to become head of the White House's Cultural Exchange program-a prize ultimately denied him. The book is so bad that Bennett Cerf of Random House, who used...
...Among them: last winter's The Symbol, by Alvah Bessie, a novel based on the life of Marilyn Monroe...
...kept in 1946, and now published in this country, reveals some of the reasons behind the success of his performance. First, Cocteau believed as firmly as any Method actor in the truth of his role as an artist. Romantically convinced that the artist is the medium, he approached the novel, drama, painting, ballet and, finally, cinema, as if each art were merely another form or mold for his personal "poetry," and he did not so much study each new form as pour himself into...
...father and his secretary, who is also his mistress. The latter is a disturbing woman- passive, manipulative, all things to the weaknesses of all men-seemingly a sister of the wife in Harold Pinter's The Homecoming. It is no accident that Pinter adapted Mosley's earlier novel for the movies. For both writers, ambiguity is truth itself. And for Mosley's characters, a mere problem of survival is too simple. The reader who follows the course of Assassins to its appropriately absurd end will be rewarded by a sophisticated plot, a cartographer's awareness...
Armah argued that the issue should not be obscured but made clear; accepted on its own merits. There is no question that he, if anyone, was most qualified to argue the case before the Administration. (Currently, a novel of his is being read by Houghton and Mifflin.) Wiley remembers how Armah could "tease, chide, and coerce within the space of a few minutes. The experience of talking with him left many quite shaken." The question for AAAAS came to be one of "On whose terms will we be recognized?" Armah was unable to communicate the new concept to the Administration...