Word: novella
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...have risen 67% in Germany, 56% in France, 72% in Italy, 61% in The Netherlands. Despite this, labor leaders use constantly increasing prices to demand even higher wages. In Italy, 7,000,000 workers will be looking for more in contract negotiations this year, and Communist Labor Leader Agostino Novella last week refused government pleas for a wage truce. In France, Communist and Catholic workers alike are scheduled to strike this week...
Each issue will include a novella and one or two short stories and poems. According to Mellen, most of today's magazines are reluctant to publish novellas. The editors intend to pay "what is a high rate for a starting magazine," with $500 the top fee for fiction. The magazine will not include much criticism...
...years Novelist Bowen still writes best about childhood. The long middle passage, which flashes back to the days of St. Agatha's, catalogues the small terrors and large thoughts of preadolescence with delicate insight. It could stand on its own as a finely wrought novella, and probably should, since the contemporary "comic" passages that flank it are flabby by comparison...
...BALLAD OF THE SAD CAFE. The mismatched magnets love makes of men and women interested Carson McCullers, but in his adaptation of her novella, Play wright Edward Albee is unable to show as strongly as she did the real powers of attraction, although Colleen Dewhurst and Michael Dunn do their best to help...
...BALLAD OF THE SAD CAFÉ. Brawny Colleen Dewhurst is matched with Michael Dunn, a prancing, saturnine dwarf, in Edward Albee's enigmatic adaptation of Carson McCuller's novella. The play lacks stage life...