Word: wheel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...text, alone, sounds plausible enough. "Man discovered the wheel," says Tashlin, but in the middle of a double page spread of havoc on a street corner where undertakers give bargain sales on coffins and ambulance drivers count victims on adding machines...
...Ritchie, living off his capital in order to pursue a treatise on the magnetic powers of crystals, is amusingly handled by Alan Napier. James and Sarah, who have both inherited their father's sovereign contempt for details, are well played by Robert Duke and Patricia Wheel, though the parts are largely foils for Miss Johns...
...CATHERINE WHEEL (281 pp.)-Jean Stafford-Harcourt, Brace...
Delicate Fireworks. The best of the three is Jean Stafford's The Catherine Wheel. In two previous books, Boston Adventure and The Mountain Lion (TIME, Jan. 22, 1945 & March 10, 1947), Novelist Stafford failed in her themes but established herself as probably the best young prose writer in the U.S. In her new book, the manner is still fine, but the matter is thinner than ever. The heroine of The Catherine Wheel is Katharine Congreve, rich, lovely, kind and altogether admirable. Her problem is a not uncommon one, in or out of fiction: in her late 30s and unmarried...
...only occasionally selfconscious, Author Stafford deals with Katharine's emotional wrestle, the special despair of young Andrew Shipley, life in the big house, the crotchety local characters. But when Katharine is burned to death in a fireworks display, the tragedy is merely shocking, not moving. The Catherine Wheel is an exercise in literary grace, so delicate that the characters and problems it creates go up with the final fireworks...