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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SQUARE'S PROGRESS by Wilfrid Sheed. 309 pages. Farrar, Straus & Giroux...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Study in Hipmanship | 9/3/1965 | See Source »

...clear-eyed innocents, imprisoned by fame behind a whimsically improbable wall of wailing nymphets, but never for a moment blinded to the really flagrant foolishness of the adult world around them. Representing the dangers of creeping maturity is a low-comedy menace identified as Paul's granddad (Wilfrid Brambell). Though everyone remarks how clean he looks, Granddad is patently a lecherous old billygoat and a born troublemaker. His ultimate mischief is to persuade Ringo to defect from show biz to the outside world-a disaster certain to deprive the cream of Britain's youth of any reason...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yeah? Yeah. Yeah!: Yeah? Yeah. Yeah! | 8/14/1964 | See Source »

...HACK, by Wilfrid Sheed. A kind of Miss Lonelyhearts in reverse, the hero is a successful writer of sentimental pap for Catholic publications, who realizes, with horror, that he is losing his sincerity and developing writer's cramp in the smug swamps of suburbia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Nov. 15, 1963 | 11/15/1963 | See Source »

...HACK, by Wilfrid Sheed. A kind of Miss Lonelyhearts in reverse, the hero is a successful writer of sentimental pap for Catholic publications, who begins to lose his sincerity in the smugger swamps of suburbia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Nov. 8, 1963 | 11/8/1963 | See Source »

Nathanael West's Miss Lonelyhearts is the saga of a cynical writer of a newspaper agony column who is sucked into emotional involvements with his correspondents and almost against his will achieves a kind of faith. Author Wilfrid Sheed's funny, sad, perceptive novel turns the story upside down. It recounts the fate of a magazine writer who starts with a serene, uncluttered faith and, as it slips away from him, tries desperately to become a cynical hack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mr. Sincerity | 11/1/1963 | See Source »

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