Word: novels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mothers of River City! Watch for the telltale signs of corruption. The moment your son leaves the house does he re-buckle his knickerbockers below the knee? Is there a nicotine stain on his index finger? A dime novel hidden in the corn crib? Is he memorizing jokes out of Capt. Billy's "Whiz Bang"? Are certain words creeping into his conversation? Words like "swell" and "so's your old man"? If so, my friends-ya got Trouble...
This Angry Age. A strong but uneven picture, derived from The Sea Wall, a memorable novel about French pioneers in Indo-China; with Anthony Perkins and Jo Van Fleet (TIME, June...
...agree. Of her life before she met Joe, she says: "I just dreamed along like a big blob of sleep." Now she regards her Joe as her personal God. After she discovers, in a grotesque episode of peeping tomfoolery, that her husband is not God after all, the novel reaches its nub with the mating of the two nothings-Rennie and Horner...
This Angry Age. A strong but uneven picture, derived from The Sea Wall, a memorable novel about French pioneers in Indo-China; with Anthony Perkins and Jo Van Fleet (TIME, June...
Rouge et Noir. The edge of Stendhal's satire dulled by sentiment, but all the same a good movie from a great novel; with Gérard Philipe, Danielle Darrieux, Antonella Lualdi (TIME...