Word: novels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Book Publisher (Random House) and TV Paneluminary (What's My Line?) Bennett Cerf gave a group of Arizona businessmen the line on the modern novel: "There have been too many in which some young man is looking forward, backward or sideways in anger. Or in which some Southern youth is being chased through the magnolia bushes by his aunt. She catches him on page 28 with horrid results...
Birth Boom. What Newsday's readers got was Huxley's pessimistic opinion that his fearful Brave New World is indeed close at hand. It was not until the Year of Our Ford 632 (according to the 1932 novel) that babies were to be grown in laboratories like fungi, happy citizens were to be conditioned by sleep teaching and there was to be no pain, no disease and-theoretically-no independent thought. Now, says Huxley, "The nightmare of total organization . . . has emerged from the safe, remote future." Main factor: the birth boom that has jumped the world...
This Angry Age (De Laurentiis; Columbia). "There were many children in the plain," wrote Marguerite Duras in The Sea Wall (TIME, March 16, 1953), the brutally beautiful French novel about Indo-China on which this film is based. "They were a kind of calamity . . . They came each year, by periodical tides, by crops. They were everywhere, perched in the trees, on the backs of buffaloes . . . in the mud, looking for the dwarf crabs of the rice fields, [and] they were always followed by packs of stray dogs, whose . . . main nourishment was their excrement . . . They died in such numbers that they...
Rouge et Noir. The edge of Stendhal's satire dulled by sentiment, but all the same a good movie from a great novel; with Gérard Philipe, Danielle Darrieux, Antonella Lualdi (TIME...
...emptier head. The latest victim of the idea that anything and everything goes, especially on paper, is an American named James Patrick Donleavy, whose cross-pollination with Bloom has produced a rank Jimson weed. Its name: Sebastian Dangerfield, chief character of a mad, and-by British critics-madly praised novel called The Ginger...