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Word: novelized (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Until that dawn of destruction, the best advice is to go merrily, merrily. For "the deepest insights sometimes emerge from a joke, a gag, or a slap in the face," says Argentina's Julio Cortazar, author of the highly praised fantasy-novel Hopscotch and of Blow-Up, the short story turned hit movie by Michelangelo Antonioni...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Free-Floating Levity | 6/13/1969 | See Source »

Most first books of stories claim on the jacket that the author is at work on a novel, as though admitting to the public that stories are not enough for a writer to achieve. Jonathan Strong's stories are plenty. They recapture a time, they have a tone of their own. Never do they take a glitzy, Krackerjacks way out. Never does Strong dress what can be bare...

Author: By Carter Wilson, | Title: Tike and Five Stories | 6/12/1969 | See Source »

MIDNIGHT COWBOY. Melancholy and an aching sense of loneliness pervade this screen version of James Leo Herlihy's novel about the unlikely friendship of two loners in New York. The acting by Dustin Hoffman and Newcomer Jon Voight is excellent, even though John Schlesinger's direction sometimes becomes too slick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Jun. 6, 1969 | 6/6/1969 | See Source »

What is left afterward is the impression of a few feverish laps around the laboratory, an oppressive feeling that the spreading bacteria may be less of a threat than the organized technology necessary to fight it. The book remains essentially a great short story, distended to novel length, that closes on a dying fall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bugged by Outer Space | 6/6/1969 | See Source »

...Negro successfully robs a bank instead of a chicken coop we can honestly claim to be emancipated." The speaker is a character in this flawed but forceful first novel. The scene is a Southern city in the 1930s. For the Negroes who dwell there in remorseless squalor, a measure of freedom and manhood can be earned only by breaking the white man's law. For a bright, ambitious Negro, the best way to prosperity is not through business or the professions but in the illicit sporting life: gambling and the rackets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Taken for Granite | 6/6/1969 | See Source »

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