Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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HADRIAN VII is a dramatization of Frederick William Rolfe's novel, Hadrian the Seventh, a minor masterpiece about a rejected candidate for the priesthood who is elected Pope. Alec McCowen's performance as the fictional Pope is a paradigm of the elegant best in English acting style...
...MILITARY PHILOSOPHERS, by Anthony Powell. The ninth volume in his serial novel, A Dance to the Music of Time, expertly convoys Powell's innumerable characters through the futility, boredom and heroism of World...
...novelist, Grubb has written about Appalachian violence before. The Night of the Hunter (1954), his first book, is a shadowy work about a murderous preacher who chases a couple of kids up and down the Ohio River. The Voices of Glory (1962), a moody, backward-looking novel, has its share of crazy thunderation. They offer some clue as to why the "muttering meanness" guff in this book turns out to be more than just a touch overwritten...
Wilkie Collins, who regularly took what for others would have been lethal doses of laudanum, composed "a major piece of work," Miss Hayter admits, when he wrote The Moonstone-a Chinese box of a novel in which the actions of an opium-drugged man are described by an opium-using author. She points out, though, that Collins did not directly utilize his hallucinations. His forte-tight construction of narratives-was rare for a Victorian and hardly the sort of thing to be aided by drug taking. Quite the contrary...
...they are guys who swing from both sides of the bed. Around them swirls another kind of urban flotsam: maimed, embittered victims with out a prayer of sexual gratification or a hope of companionship. From these unpromising fragments, James Leo Herlihy wrote a lyric blues ballad disguised as a novel. The film adaptation of Midnight Cowboy may grant that ballad too much orchestration, but it preserves its essential compassion and humor...