Word: svengali
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...defend it for the tolerant portrayal of Daniel Deronda. There are encylopedic lists of all the Jews who have appeared on the printed page and detailed, psychoanalytic polemics about whether or not Dickens was really anti semitic. Yet, until the appearance of Edgar Rosenberg's study, From Shylock to Svengali: Jewish Stereotypes in English Fiction, no one had bothered to ask the important questions: why the picture of the villanious Jew has remained constant from the medieval ballads about the murder of Hugh or Lincoln to the novels of Graham Greene and Evelyn Waugh, why the conscious attempts to reject...
...Grace Metalious' blast at me over Return to Peyton Place reported in the Dec. 21 TIME: it is to laugh. I am no Svengali and she's no Trilby. I did not guide her hands across her golden typewriter. And when it comes to riding the gravy train, I'm in the caboose. I have yet to make the picture, which will cost several million dollars. It is a gamble as to if it makes money or not as are all pictures these days. She has her gravy and can eat it already. The paperback rights...