Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What a display of poor taste were your pictures. Is TIME one of those publications that feels it has a mission to educate the U.S. public to the ugly facts of the rest of the world...
...authors, who now live in New Jersey but still profess to be wary of retribution by Spanish agents, have taken the undoubted truths that Franco's regime is corrupt and oppressive, that the fishers and farmers are appallingly poor, and that the Spanish church is the most inflexible in Catholicism, and blurred them in something called a "documentary novel." But, encysted in a perfunctorily told story in which each character is paraded merely as a type-the grasping peasant, the sadistic Falangist, the hardy old freedom fighter-facts quickly take on the smell of falsity. And ironically, although...
...people and not types, the author presents the villagers-the fishermen who starve with grace when rough weather keeps their motorless vessels ashore, the aging, middle-class virgins who embroider napkins by the gross while conducting decade-long engagements, the rich who choose not to be distressed by the poor...
...rather precocious 12-year-old son, Ally. Sid, who thinks Easy Street is just around the corner, needs $5300 to pay off debts and retain the hotel. So he phones his stupid but well-heeled brother Max in New York and drops a half-truth about Ally's poor health. Whereupon Max and wife Sophie fly down and want to take Ally home with them or marry Sid off to a wealthy young widow; but Sid prefers women's company without responsibility, particularly that of a nympho who has a room upstairs and is out to get "what I want...
Hope has arrived as a great many people thought it would--not in expensive bindery or elaborate engraving. But on poor paper, mimeographed, adless, and bearing the unmistakable smell of ink. Voices goes on sale today, and if you can't always make out the words because of the publishing process, it's at least worth the effort...