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...prominence, and the Pulitzer choices frequently produce lively disputes. Scarcely anyone besides Josephine Johnson, the author of a sensitive but minor novel entitled Now in November, could understand why Miss Johnson won the 1935 fiction prize in a year that also saw publication of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night and John O'Hara's Appointment in Samarra. Ernest Hemingway had to wait until 1953 to win his first Pulitzer, with The Old Man and the Sea, having previously missed with two American classics (The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms). Some...
Moore, comprises a remarkably complete autobiography of the contentious, witty, prickly and tender novelist, who corresponded voluminously because he was so often away from home-driven first by a consuming desire for Utopia, then by a consumptive body that forced him to seek out hot, dry climates...
...Long and Happy Life, by Reynolds Price. The story of a Carolina country girl's love for a young man who often seems to love motorcycles more makes a wise and tender first novel...
...voice soared buoyantly; the pianissimi were fine-spun and beautifully controlled. This vocal gold was at the service of an extraordinary musical intelligence in the Hugo Wolf group which followed the intermission: each song, as Miss Schwarzkopf rendered it, became a drama in miniature. The alternately anguished and tender dialogue of Herr, was traegt der Boden hier, the elaborate pathos of Bedeckt mich mis Bluemen, were projected with mastery; no less remarkable--for Schwarzkopf dearly loves a song in which she can be girlish and winning--was the sly humor of In dem Schatten meiner Locken ("In the shadow...
...turned resignedly wry. Joining in the tastelessness, Cleopatra Director Joseph Mankiewicz, himself an often-reported Liz diversion, deadpanned: "The real truth is that I am in love with Burton and Miss Taylor is the cover-up for us." Fox flacks, who before the divorce announcement were dispensing nothing but tender claptrap about the enduring bond between Liz and Fisher, were finally displaying more characteristic cinemettle. "A little intramural lovemaking," declared one P.R. man cheerily, "never hurt the box office." A lot of people might be waiting to see the film; a lot more could hardly wait for the script...