Word: novels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hand of the administration reaches even into the traditional hangout of freedom, the fraternity. Dean Peters last year introduced the novel idea of having a resident adviser in the various frat houses. "Ten fraternities have done this voluntarily; with the great improvement this practice has brought about, we hope it will grow and expand," Peters says. Still, for all its committees and representatives, the Dean's office likes to posture itself as a benevolent despot. Peters explains, "There is a certain number of necessary rules. We try to interfere as little as possible with student affairs...
...Gerald Greene, who adopted The Last Angry Man from his novel of the same name, had decided to focus the plot on Dr. Abelman, using him as a prism through which the audience could see Greene's distinctly colored view of Madison Avenue, he might have produced an interesting variationon the grey flannel theme...
...moment nears "to do chop-chop," as M'sieur Pierre puts it childishly; and childishly, too, the prisoner seeks to save his last shred of self-respect as he mutters: "By myself, by myself." Author Nabokov saves a climactic surprise for the chopping block itself, where the novel ends...
...Devil's Advocate, by Morris L. West. A first-rate religious novel, utterly without peppermint piety, concerning a dying priest who investigates the claims to sainthood of a mysterious World War II deserter...
...Rack, by A. E. Ellis. A chilling, sometimes sickening novel of a cynically run tuberculosis sanatorium, in which hope dies quickly, the patients more slowly...