Word: novels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wrote a novel [about the Eastons] I know how my first chapter would end. Three minutes after Mrs. Easton answered the phone and gave the right formula . . . the doorbell rang. It was an insurance salesman. He had been passing through Attleboro with his car radio on, listening, of course, to Stop the Music. When he heard the address, he headed for the house. He was Johnny-on-the-spot, the first of an intolerable army of mercenaries. I didn't make up the insuranceman episode. That, too, happened to the Eastons...
...State." In the Vashti McCollum case last spring, the court told an Illinois school board not to allow the teaching of religion in the public schools (TIME, March 22). Last week, meeting in Washington, D.C., the Roman Catholic bishops of the U.S. denounced the court for this "entirely novel and ominously extensive interpretation...
Three other Harvard professors took part in the discussions that followed the opening address. Professor Harry T. Levin '33 spoke on the panel discussing the teaching of the novel, and Professor John Finley, Jr. '25 talked on the relation of ancient and other foreign classics to the present day college curriculum in English. Professor Theodore Spencer, national president of the association, presided over the final meeting at dinner Saturday night...
Christ appears in the novel as a worker of miracles, a preacher whom multitudes follow without quite knowing why. Dr. Douglas' characters, aside from Peter, are usually plain people who have heard something of the story, and who are interested, hopeful, puzzled or skeptical in their response to the message that the kingdom of God is within them...
...more writers on the Advocate, it would be a better magazine. Too much of its fiction, even when it has form and style, completely lacks character and emotion, which ordinarily are among the chief concerns of writers. A story in the current issue called "Love Me, Love My Novel" is just this sort of fiction. So is one called "One Less Vote For Wallace." It is about a young male reader of Thrilling Love Stories who tries to make time, on a Thrilling Love Stories basis, with a young female Wallaceite. Even if you are not so sensitive...