Word: novels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Broadway with his successful Harvard Prize Play, You and I. Married and the father of two young sons, Barry for years lived abroad, now lives in Florida. His good friends include such well-known sophisticates as Robert Benchley, Dorothy Parker, Donald Ogden Stewart. This fall Barry published his first novel, War in Heaven- Here Come the Clowns in fiction form...
When the Lowell House undergraduate symposium takes place next week, a significant protest against overspecialization will, consciously or not, have been recorded. Not only because of its interesting subject matter but also because of the novel method of presentation, the symposium should be a success...
...thing actually to see something; and it is quite another thing to read and then see it, since there is bound to be a difference in the two pictures which meet the eye. For instance, read a novel, say Hardy's "Return of the Native"--with which almost every student comes in contact sooner or later. As you read, you see the picture of the land through Hardy's words, but you build up a picture of your own with your mental eye. Thus, when he describes the opening scene: "A Saturday afternoon in November was approaching the time...
This, it seems evident, is one of the reasons why so many people are disappointed every time a novel is dramatized or made into a movie. The pictures aren't the same as you or Vag bad imagined. And it's disconcerting. But at least one man Vag knows has made a hobby of finding out just what the correct picture is--the view novelists like Hardy actually saw as they wrote. This man has tramped around a lot and taken many colored photographs of out-of-the-way places like Egdon Heath and Stevenson's favorite hang-outs. Pictures...
Complaint. Most momentous change that has taken place in literary societies is the development of independence. Professional reviewers find that many a highly praised best-seller falls flat when summarized, while an inconspicuous novel sets off a spark...