Word: novels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Like It, and Twelfth Night. The last is by far the best; but the second best of Shakespeare--as of Brutus--is impressive. Still, the serious main story of Hero and Claudio in Much Ado is pallid stuff, and is based more on accident and coincidence than a Hardy novel. Shakespeare obviously took this tale just as a frame to hang some original fun on. What impresses us (as it did Berlioz in fashioning his last opera) is the sparkling and witty comedy of Beatrice and Benedick, along with the wonderful farce of the constable Dogberry and his night watch...
Band of Angels (Warner) is an epic that tries to convert the U.S. Civil War into a battle of the sexes. It is no better, no worse than Robert Penn Warren's best-selling novel (TIME. Aug. 22, 1955) in which the ante-bellum and wartime agonies of the South were portrayed as if the whole upheaval were a kind of apoplectic seizure under the magnolias...
...Strange One. Calder Willingham's novel (End As a Man) about a Southern military academy makes a slick, sadistic thriller-a slashing good cinema debut for Actor Ben Gazzara (TIME, April...
Your story on Ray Edwards should not have been "The Bad Seed"; the title of another novel should have been borrowed and revised-"The Bad Earth"-in which the best of our seeds are wasted by the amateur gardeners we call society...
...Strange One. Calder Willingham's novel (End As a Man) about a Southern military academy makes a slick, sadistic thriller-a slashing good cinema debut for Actor Ben Gazzara (TIME. April...