Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...evil about as far as possible. What, after all, are the transgressions of alcohol, adultery and the idolatries of affluence when judged against the world's unrelenting slaughter and injustice? Cheever's visions of guilt, despair and hope clearly needed a more extreme situation. For his new novel, he has found one in the image of a modern penal institution...
Cheever's great strength has always been his ability to charge both the ordinary and the fanciful with emotion. Falconer is strong on feelings, even though they often overflow the novel's loose structure. Farragut is admittedly a man keenly aware of the banal ironies of his life and of his own sententious observations. Yet at times Cheever imposes them on the reader as if the novel itself were a correctional institution. "We prisoners," says Farragut, "more than any men, have suffered for our sins, we have suffered for the sins of society, and our example should cleanse...
...first novel, Douglas Day, author of a 1974 prizewinning biography of Malcolm Lowry, rings his hero through a number of old narrative changes. Resales is the Hispanic Odys seus on his arduous journey homeward...
...crowded skin-magazine business. It happened after a five-week trial, in which lawyers debated the aesthetic qualities of pinup photos, medical and literary experts lectured the jury on the fine points of bestiality and oral sex, and Harold Robbins (The Carpetbaggers) quietly took notes for his next novel. Flynt was sentenced to seven to 25 years in prison and fined $11,000. His crimes: the misdemeanor of pandering obscenity and the felony of "engaging in organized crime." The latter offense, established by a little-used 1974 Ohio statute, includes any illegal act in which five or more people participate...
...coalition government of Prime Minister Thorbjorn Falldin is fully committed to the welfare state. That means keeping unemployment at its present low rate of 1.5%, even if employers must pay workers who show up only sporadically. Volvo has pioneered new ideas to keep workers interested, including a novel assembly line that allows employees to set their own pace (TIME, Sept. 16, 1974). That has cut absenteeism in a new plant outside Kalmar to 15%-still high by almost any standards outside Sweden. Even shutting down is no answer; on each of the days that its plants will be idle...