Word: sagas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Naked Sea. The saga of a tuna clipper: a fish story with some spectacular truth in it (TIME...
...disgust. This one is already a smash success. Even before publication, Columbia Pictures bought the movie rights for $150,000. The novel also won the Atlantic Prize, was chosen by the Book-of-the-Month Club (February) and Reader's Digest Book Club. It is the bristling, flamboyant saga of the decline and fall of the big city boss...
Progress Heritage. Russell is writing for Southern Pacific a greater saga than the one begun by famed Railroader E. H. Harriman, whose Union Pacific bought working control of the Southern Pacific in 1901 for $42 million, spent some $240 million to improve it.-It was Harriman who pioneered automatic block signals, spanned Utah's Great Salt Lake with 16 miles of embankment and twelve miles of trestle. The S.P. is the nation's second-longest railroad (after the Santa Fe); adding wholly owned affiliates and the Cotton Belt, which it controls (88%), it is the longest, with...
...Naked Sea. The saga of a tuna clipper: a fish story with some spectacular truth in it (TIME...
...saga of the Scythian shepherd who vaultingly subdued half of Asia and Africa is too brutally simple for true drama. With its host of bloody conquests and dearth of inner conflict, with its portrayal of one who toppled realms like tenpins, it scarcely provides even variations on a single theme. As Tamburlaine sweeps on, nothing interrupts his conquests and cruelties but his Marlovian sense of physical beauty and his feeling for Zenocrate, the captive princess whom he loved and lost...