Word: immoralist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...message between his two chiseled teeth: Albert Guerard's Politburo of Comp Lit 166 favorites was re-elected almost unanimously. Topping the psychological ten, two years running, was Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! Other perennial repeats included Lord Jim, The Power and the Glory, Death in Venice, and The Immoralist. The Devils replaced The Plague, which was dropped from the course...
Died. Augustus Goetz, 56, playwright, collaborator with his wife Ruth since their marriage (in 1930) on adaptations (Andre Gide's The Immoralist, Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie, and, most successfully, The Heiress from Henry James's Washington Square); of a heart ailment, after long illness; in Manhattan...
...being an old maid's hatred of her father and the responsibility of caring for him. The story is not very complex, not, in fact, as complex as her previously published ghoulish stories. From the first, one knows the inevitable result of her plot, but, as in Gide's Immoralist, this element of inexorability adds in power what it takes away in dramatic tension. Miss Budlong uses her details well and her narrative is clear, with the exception of an unintentionally misleading last paragraph...
...selected were not markedly better than the next ten. He finally gave the accolade to four hit plays: The Caine Mutiny Court Martial, Tea and Sympathy, The Teahouse of the August Moon, The Confidential Clerk; and to six financial failures: The Golden Apple, Take a Giant Step, The Immoralist, The Girl on the Via Flaminia, In the Summer House, The Magic and the Loss...
Divorced. Billy Rose, 54, bantam Manhattan showman (The Immoralist); by his second wife and onetime aquastar, Eleanor Holm Rose, 40; after 14 years of marriage, two of court battles, no children ; in Las Vegas...