Word: slickness
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Read and R. P. Blackmur; a short story of the war by Alex Comfort that was a good grenade throw above most slick-magazine fiction. The editors regard "evaluating currently dominant literary reputations" as part of their charter. Accordingly, Vol.1, No.1 gave the back of its hand to the "dreary wastes" of homosexuality in Truman Capote's Other Voices, Other Rooms, and Gore Vidal's The City and the Pillar. Some other little magazines, just popped up or popping...
...Masses & Mainstream, reincarnating the late New Masses (TIME, Jan. 12) and the Communist literary quarterly Mainstream, was blue-serge Marxist in semi-slick dress. Its first monthly issue (15,000 copies) was adorned with a Picasso cover...
Relentless (Columbia). Robert Young, Marguerite Chapman and Barton MacLane in a Technicolored scrimmage for gold. Their work and an unusually good production give this slick western an illusion of quality it doesn't really have...
...original, and their work represents a colossal improvement over the material in last fall's numbers of Signature. There are four short stories, all of them sensitive and honest, and none shows any effort of the author to mold his work to fit the frayed banalities of the slick magazines...
...First coated-stock ("slick-paper") cover. The man-on-the-cover that week: Giulio Gatti-Casazza, manager of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera...