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Word: novelized (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...came upon an abandoned ostrich nest. Two ostrich eggs left in the nest were under attack by a variety of vultures, which were trying vainly to peck through the tough shells. While the Van Lawicks watched and photographed, they reported last week in Nature, two Egyptian vultures took a novel approach to their problem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Zoology: Birds that Throw Stones | 1/6/1967 | See Source »

...motor scooter, Adam transports this burden of anxiety to the library of the British Museum, where he is vetting a doctoral thesis on sentence structure in the modern English novel. But his overcast mood easily distracts him from the academic chase...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Antic Vein | 1/6/1967 | See Source »

...series of implausible events leads to the bedroom of a 17-year-old seductress with a powerful allure: the unpublished novel of an obscure ecclesiastical essayist. Adam prefers the manuscript to the girl, who presents herself to him unexpurgated and not even in a plain wrapper. It should be a funny scene, but, like most of the situations, it flags quickly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Antic Vein | 1/6/1967 | See Source »

...trouble with this "modern Catholic novel" by Britain's David Lodge, is that its antic spirit, though rich, is also overbearing. Like a TV situation-comedy writer, Lodge tailors his story and his characters to fit a loose collection of gags. The suspicion rises that he thought up the gags first. It is funny, of course, to see firemen swarm through the museum library on a false alarm, hosing down the stray scholar's pipe. But they are dispossessed figures like TV actors left standing on the studio stage while the scenery is being shifted for the next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Antic Vein | 1/6/1967 | See Source »

...publishers, who awarded their $15,000 Thomas R. Coward Prize to this first novel, call it "unquestionably the most authentic prison novel ever written." No questions are likely. The author wrote his book while serving 6½ years of a 10-to 80-year robbery sentence in a Minnesota jail. He was also a captive researcher at the Walla Walla State Prison (4½ years, burglary) and at San Quentin (three years, robbery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Over the Wall | 1/6/1967 | See Source »

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