Word: novels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...group of students from the Graduate School of Architecture, with the advice of a visiting critic, have completed plans for constructing a novel "concrete umbrella" in Cambridge within the next two months...
Final Niche. Some of her pronouncements are moved by heartfelt ache over the fate of children in divorces (she is writing a novel about them entitled Hollywood Be Thy Name). Others seem to be just a piece-of-mind psychologizing. Last year she went on the air with a Los Angeles TV show called Ad Lib. To the fearful joy of sponsors, Pamela lambasted monogamy as "unnatural," defended premarital sex relations because "it's absurd to stop just when you're most interested," and called for legalization of homosexuality because "it's nobody's business what...
...Sound and the Fury (20th Century-Fox) is the most interesting operation Hollywood has ever performed on a William Faulkner book. Scriptwriters Irving Ravetch and Harriet Frank Jr., in their shrewd but ruthless resection of the story, have revised almost every episode out of all resemblance to the novel, and have tidied up almost every character so as not to offend the mass public. Nevertheless, the result of all this figuring and jiggering is a picture that is both merchantable and unexpectedly moving...
This first novel by a woman in her forties is an astonishing work, one of the few rewarding books of a so-so season. The spinster of the title is Anna Vorontosov, a schoolteacher in back-country New Zealand. She is a small woman of uncertain age, whose passions are still young because she has never used them. Gifted but a little balmy, Anna primes herself for school each morning with half a tumbler of brandy, frequently gets the weeps, talks persuasively to trees and flowers, has stupendous headaches in Technicolor. Wildly alive, Anna flinches only at the thought...
...outstanding legal dramas ever to be seen at London's Old Bailey. Its major appeal did not rest on sex, money or gore; it came from the encounter between law and medicine, two intricate, big, imprecise and sometimes deadly disciplines. British Author Sybille Bedford, noted for her brilliant novel The Legacy (TIME, Feb. 11, 1957), has recreated the trial in a fascinating book...