Word: purvey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Conceivably, over this orgy of miscegenation, incest, torture and carnage can be draped some kind of indictment or protest. But in invading the Alabama of Mandingo, the Kirkland who portrayed the Georgia of Tobacco Road seems, steadily and shamelessly, to purvey sensationalism. The result may not be boring, but it is everywhere bad and, in more than one place, backfiringly ludicrous...
...pike, Mickey has been a proselyting pacifist for Jehovah's Witnesses, has taken stock of his literary competition. "All of my early stuff," he says, "is now looked upon as mild. I was the first in the field, but now they've even got women writers who purvey more violence and tough talk than I ever did." Critic Spillane, whose seven books have sold more than 30 million copies, is equally unimpressed by Nobel Prizewinner William Faulkner: "He doesn't write for the people. And why does he go in for all that morbid stuff...