Word: problems
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that June day five years ago, peace had seemed simply a problem of lashing shell fire, the stutter of machine guns, a man named Hitler and a man named Tojo. This June, children played on the half-buried landing craft. But peace seemed more elusive and infinitely more baffling, a matter of hard-held purpose in the face of provocation, hard-built strength in the face of shadowy threat...
...solve this problem," said the bartender, "would be for the King to abdicate and let his son Baudouin come back and be King. We hear young Baudouin isn't too bright, but who the hell wants a bright King? Only it looks as if it isn't going to happen because our King is a stubborn, bitter...
Ever since the first producer discovered it was bad business to hurt people's feelings, movie-making has been an industry in sneakers, carefully and profitably tip-toeing around any problem liable to jar the customer's ego. During these 40-odd years, Hollywood has kept its eye fixed steadily on the Box Office as the one valid index of public morality and has consequently built up a picture of American life which is as false as it is glossy and as harmful as it is complacent. Now, at last, this bright veneer shows signs of wearing thin. Movies...
...bigot. And if you needle him long enough, he's liable to go out of his mind--just as you would. It is not a very fancy message, and it doesn't make for a pleasant, vapid evening at the movies. It is grim and chilling like the problem it poses, and it is just as true as the little green apples God is supposed to have made...
Nine years ago, Walter Van Tilburg Clark, an overworked schoolteacher in upstate New York, bowled over the nation's critics with his first novel, a precision-built tour de force called The Ox-Bow Incident. Its firm, restrained handling of the problem of good and evil arising from a mob lynching crowned Clark with the halo of great promise. Five years later came The City of Trembling Leaves, a long, rambling study of sensitive youth in Reno, Nev., which made readers wonder if Ox-Bow had not been an accident of perfection. His new novel will keep them wondering...