Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Douglas novel about the life of Christ and a man whose life was radically changed by the sacred garment Christ wore to his Crucifixion. The sponsor, Ford Motor Co., gives everyone an added Easter present by settling for only one commercial break...
...Valance, the newspaper editor says, "This is the West. When the fact becomes legend, print the legend," Ford's films show the legend. His world is diffused by time, by memory and nostalgia, by folklore and myth. In How Green Was My Valley, Ford's adaptation of Llewellyn's novel of Welsh coal miners, the story resembles a dream, seen in retrospect by a man who has had his entire life to romanticize the past: his childhood and his family. Ford is not interested in reality but in subjective viewpoint, not fact but romance and legend...
Based on a novel by J. L. Hodson that Director Joseph Losey two years ago turned into a stirring film called King and Country (TIME, Oct. 1, 1965), Hamp, in this off-Broadway production, derives its tension and strength from a conflict between two goods, not between good and evil. Duty and discipline are obviously good and necessary in wartime, when communal responsibility is essential. On the other hand, mercy shown is also good, and morally imperative; none is shown to Hamp. As he says, softly and pitiably, "It were only the first time, sir." Here the playwright opens...
...Earth sustains those characters with exceptional force and conviction, as if he were trying to enlarge the ludicrous to epic proportions. "Where the hell else but in America," asks one of his characters, "could you have a cheerful nihilism?" Earth is a bit of a nihilist about the novel itself; he is convinced that it is a dying literary form...
...book's narrator begins, with typical uncertainty. Then he conducts a tour along the "weatherless" days of his life. Hornet suffers low-pressure areas during which he ceases to function. Hypnotized by the multitude of life's choices, he can make no choice at all. The novel is partly autobiographical. It is laid in Maryland, where Earth grew up; Horner teaches English at Wicomico State Teachers College, while Earth teaches English at the Buffalo campus of New York State University...