Word: offing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like the Cover of an old Book,
And stript of its Lettering and Gilding,
FICTION OF THE FIFTIES (383 pp.)-Edited by Herbert Gold-Doubleday ($3.95).
When Editor Herbert Gold polled the writers in this anthology about the special problems of writing in the '505, they responded with heart-quickening uniformity. "I would say," says one, "that the problem of writing fiction in this decade is basically no different from writing in the past." Fortunately...
Woodworking Works. Disaffection with the times is the common ingredient. Predictably, the writer who has mixed the smoothest cup of brine is The New Yorker's John Cheever. With his oft-repeated visions of suburbia under a lowering sky, the author is obviously following Faulkner's lead by...