Word: saga
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kentuckian Warren, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1947 for All the King's Men (based on the saga of Huey Long), has turned out a drawerful of novels since then that are exciting, expertly written, and disappointingly slick. In The Cave, he stays true to form...
Middle of the Night. Paddy Chayefsky's highly effective saga about a lonely September widower (Fredric March) and a neurotic May girl (Kim Novak...
...Aloneness." brooded Poet W. H. Auden during a leaden hour of World War II, "is man's real condition." Nearly two decades later, the saga of Soviet Poet Boris (Doctor Zhivago) Pasternak suggests that the century's loneliest crowd consists of creative intellects behind Iron and .Bamboo Curtains. Even when these curtains rise briefly, as during the thaw that followed Stalin's death, they reveal strictly solitary singers. At one time or another, the authors represented in these two collections of protesting voices belonged to the chummy writers' cliques of Warsaw. Belgrade and other Red capitals...
Middle of the Night. Paddy Chayefsky's highly effective saga about a lonely September widower (Fredric March) and a neurotic May girl (Kim Novak...
...atheistic doctor in the Congo, rattles Sister Luke with his outbursts that question her vocation to be a nun and needle her about her religion and convent rule. Peter Finch and Dean Jagger as Sister Luke's surgeon-father are both excellent contrasting contributors to the nun's saga...