Word: novels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hollywood make a movie about the love affair between a psychopathic middle-aged lecher and a twelve-year-old nymphet? When they bought Vladimir Nabokov's bestselling novel Lolita (TIME, Sept. 1), Director Stanley Kubrick and Producer James B. Harris gambled $150,000 that they will find an answer. "Basically," said Kubrick, "this story is a very funny character relationship." Hollywood wags saw one solution: make the principals a few years older and cast Maurice Chevalier opposite Brigitte Bardot...
...times, has been bouncing on and off the screen like a handball ever since 1911, when James Morrison and Norma Talmadge nickered through three reels of heroism and anguish. The best of times arrived in 1935, when the late Ronald Colman came through with a portrayal of the novel's hero that had dash and dignity as well as the usual desuetude. In this latest attempt, British Actor Dirk Bogarde* gives it a game go, but he never quite fights his way out of a paper Carton...
Marquand has written this novel before, parts of it, at least, in Point of No Return. Even the town is the same-Clyde, Mass.-and the home-town kid who has made good is full of the knowledge that you can't go home again. But this time it is the boy who belonged to the town's upper crust and the girl who lived on the dreary lower-lower level. Tom had first seen Rhoda coming from a typing class, and after that there was really no other woman for him, except on the rebound...
...Harrow has lost all his money backing a dud play. He is aging, unsure of his talent, confused about life's meanings. Rhoda offers to come back, to get him out of his financial jam. But Tom knows when he has reached the point of no return. The novel's last line sounds like a Marquand parody: "In the end, no matter how many were in the car, you always drove alone...
Most popular courses for the year were Tate's courses in poetry and the impressionistic novel, Howard Mumford Jonees's English 170, and a course given by Hans Kohn, professor of History at C.C.N.Y., in Intellectual History of Continental Europe. Also praised in the Summer News poll was Chemistry S-60, given by Dudley Herschbech, Junior Fellow, and a course in the Nineteenth Century American Novel, given by Harold C. Martin, Lecturer in Comparative Literature and Director of General Education Ahf. Martin won great praise from his students for the superb or-financial reasons, and dislike...