Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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 intrigue, futility, boredom and courage of World...
...QUICK AND THE DEAD, by Thomas Wiseman. Wiseman's novel about the friendship between a half-Jew and a Nazi, before and during World War II in Vienna, is a brilliant psychological study of how two very different men can become so fatally entwined that each determines the course of the other's life...
...GODFATHER, by Mario Puzo. For the Mafia, as for other upwardly mobile Americans, the name of the game is respectability and status-after the money and power have been secured. An excellent novel...
PORTNOY'S COMPLAINT, by Philip Roth. This frenzied monologue by a sex-obsessed Jewish bachelor on a psychiatrist's couch becomes a comic novel about the absurdly painful wounds created by guilt and puritanism...
...journalistic domain of the critic is usually thought to be sharply defined. Its boundaries enclose columns of distinctly personal journalism-a book reviewer's appraisal of a new novel or a theater critic's assessment of a new play. But as journalism becomes more and more a craft of analysis and judgment, the distinction between critic and general writer or reporter fades. In this connection, we like to recall a dictum by TIME'S Cinema Critic Stefan Kanfer, who remarked somewhat sweepingly: "All our departments must be critical departments...