Word: novels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Infinite Variety. The country exhibited no discernible unrest, no passion for plunging toward new ideas or new philosophies. Literature leaned heavily on the historical novel which, by a curious transformation, seemed to provide the only public expression of the libido. Historical novels were most noteworthy for their dust jackets, all of which seemed to boast a red-lipped siren with a low-cut dress and an incredibly pneumatic bust. U.S. intellectuals, who had once ranged from the Paris Left Bank to Communism's left wing, had come home to roost. It was a little saddening to the more daring...
Died. Elissa Landi, 43, novel-writing stage & screen actress (Count of Monte Cristo, Sign of the Cross), reputedly the granddaughter of Austria's Empress Elizabeth; of cancer; in Kingston...
...amazed that the Bruckner Quintet is not heard more often; the Adagio is one of the most beautiful of its kind, and Tuesday's performance brought out its every shade. Granted that chamber music sounds differently played by a full orchestra, still it was a novel experience to hear Bruckner's Adagio done by one of the finest string sections anywhere...
...battle of El Alamein, an Italian army officer named Giuseppe Berto was captured. He spent three years in a Texas prison camp. When he returned to Italy at the war's end, he found a publisher willing to take a chance on the rough first novel he had written behind the wire. Unexpectedly it became a bestseller in a country where few can afford to buy books...
...novelist, Giuseppe Berto has a lot to learn. He knows very little about how to pace a novel, how to build up climaxes and tighten tensions; he often touches the incongruous by putting much too mature speeches into the mouths of his babes. But most U.S. readers will find in The Sky Is Red, as in such recent Italian films as Open City and Shoe-Shine, a raw and brutal vitality that slicker performances often lack...