Word: novels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Somehow it does not seem to matter in the early scenes that no makeup artist can change 33-year-old Larry (Flower Drum Song) Blyden into the angular, ferret-faced, 17-year-old copy boy he is in the novel's opening chapters; Blyden's lines still snarl with Sammy's hungry, terrifying drive. Nor does it matter very much that the gutter gags had to be cleaned up, that the Jewish humor is sacrificed to the self-conscious contemporary convention that seldom allows so much as a smile with a racial or religious twist. Although...
...Lowell lecture hall (New Lecture Hall to old-timers) begins his bawdy bit about the workings of modern governments in Government la. Lecture-goers with less than cast-iron stomachs should instead try Emerson D where Dr. O'Clair talks with gurgling humor about the nineteenth century English novel (English...
...Balcony, by David Stacton. The Pharaoh Ikhnaton's neuroticism was more significant than his monotheism if Author Stacton is to be believed in this astringent, superior historical novel...
Advise and Consent, by Allen Drury. This 616-page novel yawns for an editor's blue pencil, but New York Timesman Drury knows Washington from the inside...
...Brodkey and Jonathan Kozol, and the similar but less facile pieces which, says the Advocate, comprise roughly one-third of all Harvard undergraduate writing. The informative section of this article is really quite interesting: one can hardly have missed making the connection between Brodkey's Sentimental Education, Kozol's novel and other similar work, but it is pleasant to see it done in print with some competent remarks about the correlation...