Word: novella
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...BLACKING FACTORY and PENNSYLVANIA GOTHIC, by Wilfrid Sheed. A polished novella and a long story-both about adolescence-emphasize the consequences of failing to let go of the past...
...This novella, a study of a Negro girl's mind as told through her speech rhythms, appeared in 1909 and was one of the earliest and best of Gertrude Stein's countless experiments. Richard Wright called it "the first long serious treatment of Negro life in the United States...
This feelie probably goes as far as the permissive law permits. Based on a novella by Violette Leduc, a gifted French writer who is an admitted lesbian, the film tells the old story of homosexual love between school chums. Therese is played by Sweden's pouty-lipped Essy Persson, and Isabelle by France's blonde, big-eyed Anna Gael. They make love with their clothes on in a toilet cubicle and the school chapel, and with their clothes off in bed and in the woods. There is also a prolonged bout of autoeroticism and, just for variety...
...program of cultural events that include premieres of two plays by Edward Albee and an opera by Belgium's Henri Pousseur, the first U.S. performances of new works by Penderecki and Greek-born lannis Xenakis, a new movie by Underground Mogul Jonas Mekas, John Barth reading his new novella aloud, and lectures by City Planner Constantinos Doxiadis and Designer Buckminster Fuller. The whole shebang got under way last week with a display of 300 constructivist paintings and sculptures called "Plus by Minus: Today's Half-Century" at the Albright-Knox Gallery (see color opposite...
While one editor read the news, the others quipped their way through the facts to get at the nub of the important stories. There was even an Inquiring Reporter-a girl with the engaging name of Novella O'Hara. What gave the program added interest was the obvious absence of calculated showmanship and a willingness to forgo pictorial values for the sake of the news itself. Viewer response was so great that KQED now plans to make Newspaper of the Air a regular weekly staple...