Word: scenario
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Your profile of Princess Margaret [TIME, June 13] read like a [movie] scenario . . . For the first time in many years of reading TIME, I suspect the veracity of your researchers. How in the world could you dig up such material on a royal personage...
...predecessors, its characters more credible, its melodrama more restrained. But it is oddly less interesting for being more plausible, and less convincing for being closer to a recognizable environment. Part of the difficulty is that the plot seems to have been trimmed down to the proportions of a cinema scenario. Part of it is that the flamboyance and stage effects of the earlier books do not mix with the doings of backwoods storekeepers or squabbles over right-of-way. But the deeper trouble is that Author Street's view of history, like that of most contemporary historical novelists, does...
...Brussels. There, according to the plan, the authorities were supposed to send him back to London, and London back again to Brussels, so that he would dramatically shuttle back & forth until the world got the point (whatever the point was). But the Belgians did not stick to the scenario and put Clarin in the red brick prison known in Brussels as the Little Castle. For two weeks, the world citizen stayed in a cell together with two dozen common drunks...
...definite deadline for entries has been not on far, but all these intending to enter the contest should see Ward at Lowell J-32 or Bruce G. Horowitz'50 at Eliot C-12. Ward and Horowitz are co-chairman of the scenario committee...
...result, he moralizes too much, stating explicitly what his story conveys, or should convey, by itself. Written as a movie scenario, Ape and Essence is burdened with a "narrator" who points the lesson line by line. Yet the book has a certain awesome impressiveness; its sheer, intractable bitterness cannot but affect the reader as Huxley chants his litanies over modern civilization...