Word: perfectability
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...asked a Mongolian herdsman where America was. "In West Russia," he replied. This picture, which purports to be based on the life of the young Genghis Khan, carries a strong suggestion that, to Hollywood's way of thinking, Mongolia is in the western U.S. The part of the "Perfect Warrior"-a man who became a supreme statesman and lawgiver as well as the most formidable military genius in Asiatic history-is played by Hollywood's best-known cowboy, John Wayne. And does he gallop across the steppe, as the young Temujin did, on a hairy little Mongol pony...
...PERFECT WOMAN (363 pp.)-/-. P. Hartley-Knopf...
Many British critics think that the author of A Perfect Woman is just about a perfect novelist. At 60, Leslie Poles Hartley couples some of the skill and suavity of Somerset Maugham with a show of sympathetic interest, an emotion that Maugham controls to the point of asphyxiation. Hartley's technical aplomb helped to make The Go-Between (TIME, Aug. 9, 1954) one of the most admired novels of its year. In A Perfect Woman he demonstrates with good humor and feline subtlety how many ways there are for an author to tap and bat his characters around before...
...Home on the Channel. Author Hart ley is profoundly interested in what happens to ordinary people when they let themselves go and get entangled in extraordinary situations. Isabel Eastwood, the "perfect woman" of this novel, is an ordinary woman who dreamed in her younger days of dedicating her life to something rare and wonderful. But just when she was getting the hang of Kafka and the tang of Joyce, she married Harold, a chartered accountant who regarded life as a sort of income-tax return and his Creator as an Inspector of Internal Revenue. The Inspector, as Harold sees...
Hoadley has been receiving help, too. Though he lost his friendly and student-conscious senior tutors, Arnold M. Soloway, to Littauer this year, Richard T. Gill has been a perfect replacement in the post...