Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...question answered fastest by the Radcliffe team was one in which the moderator gave the first line of a review of a novel and asked for its author and title. The question was "laid out on a psychiatrist's couch;" the answer: Portnoy's Complaint by Phillip Roth...
IMAGES FROM a Gothic novel haunt the second floor of Hilles Library in a strange set of 19th century prints. They recall illustrations in your grandmother's nostrildusting edition of Wuthering Heights where inked lines wove landscapes of odd faces an cloudy moors. Among the prints in Delacroix to Degas: Printmakers Contemporary to Daumier (a little too long and alliterative for the size of the show), the weird, excessively detailed scenes are the most fun. You keep finding an unexpected figure under a tree or a crow in the sky disguised in the dark linear pattern. These ambiguous details emerging...
...novel idea ran into some serious problems from the very beginning. Two weeks after opening night, the police shut down the Atma as a potential "disruption to the Community." But the coffeehouse was soon allowed to open again. While Samshak had no plans to disrupt the community, he soon found that the community would disrupt the Atma Windows, lights, typewriters, and tape recorders were vandalized; within the first two months, over $2,000 worth of damage was done. Guards were placed at the front and back doors to keep the community gangs from disrupting the performances. But keeping unwanted people...
...world's vocabularies. Properly, a maigret is a detective story whose hero is a Parisian police inspector by that name, but so many maigrets have been published that the word is now used to describe mystery stories in general. In a stricter sense, a simenon is any novel except a maigret by Maigret's progenitor, Belgian-born Author Georges Simenon, 66. Simenon has produced a total of 74 maigrets and 126 simenons, which have appeared in 43 languages. Last week, with the publication in French of ll y a encore des noisetiers (There Are Still Hazel Bushes), Simenon...
Although the last word on this robust, casually served novel about the Mafia should come from the voluble Joe Valachi, the moral will be evident to a jaywalker: The Family That Preys Together Stays Together...