Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...probably than that of any other Communist journalist" and has ever been "a passionate partisan of the masses." Therefore last week the World proletariat was startled, to say the least, when Sovie Public Prosecutor Andrei Vishinsky accused Prisoner Radek of "political and legal guilt" in connection with the alleged plot against Dictator Stalin. Because of the same "plot" 16 Bolsheviks were recently shot (TIME, Aug. 31), the most prominent being Lenin's old comrades Zinoviev (né Apfelbaum) and Karnenev(né Rosenfeld...
...very long ago the drama depended almost invariably on a single situation. Whether the play were comedy, tragedy, farce, or musical play, the plot hinged on one time-honored convention--the compromising of a woman's honor. Compromised how? Surely you remember: by being "found in a man's rooms." Not room; rooms; it sounded more sinister. Maybe she just wanted an egg and which; maybe she really was interested in etchings maybe she was boring her host to death, and he, to get rid of her, asked her to do this dreadful thing he knew no lady would dream...
...there are other things in store. The plot is meant to have a primitive compulsion about it, and in many places it has. Loretta Young is Ramona. When she learns that her mother's skin was red, duty joins inclination to make her marry Alessaudro, a very handsome Indian played by Don Ameche with none of the traditional "Ugh". In the course of a very persecuted life Alessandro gets shot to death. But just when divine justice is being reproachfully questioned by Ramona's homely protectress, along comes Filipe (Kent Taylor), Ramona's other lover, and promises...
...adulterous passion creating an impossible situation. So did his father who discovered his secret, died soon after All this was the substance of a matter-of-fact novel that won the Dodd, Mead Pictorial Review $10,000 prize contest las week. Simple to the point of bleakness ir its plot, The Old Ashburn Place goes or to recount Charlie's gradual resignation before the complexities of life, his reconciliation with his brother, the accidental death of the erring wife that saved her from disgrace, Charlie's graceful stepping-aside to permit Morris to marry again...
...nowhere among American publications today that you can go to find out the real truth and the whole truth about current publications. The New York Times and the New York Herald-Tribune book sections are totally valueless so far as setting up any standards of merit is concerned. For plot-summaries and name, age, and habits of authors they have some worth. But it is notable that precisely never does either of them come out and annihilate a book that has been given a fat advertising appropriation by its publishers. The discrimination and intellectual honesty of these weekly "literary" magazines...