Word: novels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...House surrounding him beamed. The warm nod of approval from John P. Marquand, Pulitzer Prize winning novelist, overseer, and writer-in-residence in the House, had set them up for the evening. They were ready now to listen to the novelist himself and later to discuss his new, unpublished novel with...
...glasses. "I am going to read the first and part of the second chapter of my novel--it hasn't got a name yet--and then I'd like you to discuss it. This novel, I hope, will present a picture of various dilemmas of the artistic mind." He began reading. His low, somewhat hoarse voice uttered each word as though he were a father examining a newborn child, and when he had finished, he looked up expectantly...
...This is a wonderful subject for a novel of manners. The organization man and the impact of the corporation on our social life are some of the most significant facts of the American scene today. I am glad writers are beginning to pay serious attention to them. There is nothing easier to do than make fun of the president of an advertising agency or these damned business conferences, don't you know--conventions in Atlantic City. I think they're both bad and good; I haven't very many fixed opinions on them...
Eventually, discussion got around to novelists, and Marquand mentioned F. Scott Fitzgerald. "I think Gatsby is an outstanding novel," he asserted. "I can think of hardly any derogatory criticism of it. I could, I believe, pull all his others into pieces...
...this time, the hosts were urging the author and his admirers downstairs to dinner and to a discussion of his novel. "That punch was rather strong," he admitted, walking through the dining room. "Oh--you put your silverware in your pockets; that is clever...