Word: novelized
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HAMP. Based on a novel by J. L. Hodson, John Wilson's play is a critical examination of a court-martial and its decision in favor of discipline rather than compassion. Robert Salvio is Private Hamp, a World War I infantryman condemned to death after his fears and instincts caused him to flee the bloodshed of the front...
...would also like to question the novel idea that the 20 members of the HUC are "more representative" than the 2,000 students who recently voted on the question of parietals. We are glad, however, that the Masters and Deans are aware of the existence of at least the 20 students who constitute the HUC. We hope that they will still be aware of this body early next fall (say, the first week of school) should the HUC approve and present to them the same proposal that Lowell House submitted this year...
...Priestley is a British institution: a word factory who has turned out 29 volumes of assorted nonfiction and 24 novels. Yet each successive effort manages to offer a number of odd little surprises. The first in this novel is that a man of Priestley's age should be at all interested in examining Swinging Britain; the second is that his study makes such jolly good entertainment. The hero is Tom Adamson, a young Australian university professor who has come to England searching for his absentee father. His quest scrapes his sensibilities against the Big Beat, campy pubs, Socialists, Tories...
After spending seven years working for British newspapers, Pundit Michael Frayn is convinced that they are all suffering from a disease called entropy-the process by which things fall apart. Which is just what they do in this engaging novel set in the offices of a large London daily. No one on the staff has more than a passing concern for the interests of the paper. One staffer spends the day turning out scripts for the BBC; another writes syllabuses for grammar school courses; John Dyson, a department head, yearns to establish himself as a television panelist. Frayn...
When Jew meets Gentile in the U.S., it is not always a case of one shoving the other off the sidewalk. But such nasty little scuffles have high frequency in the books of Jerome Weidman, as in his 15th novel, Other People's Money. The hero, Victor Smith, is orphaned at three when his parents go down on the torpedoed Lusitania. Young Victor is installed in the luxurious Manhattan home of Walter Weld, his father's employer, where he is later joined by young Philip Brandwine, another orphan of a Weld employee. Remarkably, neither child seems to have...