Word: obsessional
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With the plodding thoroughness of Henry James developing a character in fourteen chapters, Playwright Robert Sherwood as director of "Adam-Had Four Sons" has made it into a psychological dissection of an upperclass family during the last war. Warner Baxter, stouter than in his matinee idol days but still a...
Some feared that the legend of Hemingway virility was about to develop into a new Byronism. Quipped Westbrook Pegler: "Ernest Hemingway-the fur-bearing author. . . ." Critic Bernard De Voto observed: "So far none of Ernest Hemingway's characters has had any more consciousness than a jaguar." Critic Max Eastman...
This narrow margin of profit interferes little with President Eisenschiml's munificent obsession. Says he: "I expect the men to be treated as gentlemen and the women as ladies." But he favors the ladies. Running a commercial matriarchy, he employs only women executives (exception: his son). The other men...
But the gusto and wit of the true picaresque fill Clyde Brion Davis' recent Sullivan (Farrar & Rinehart; $2.50), though it is less original than his The Anointed (1937). Gilbert Sullivan (whose middle name was not "&") leaves Chicago to wander through Texas, Mexico, California with a rogue who gathers funds...
Most likely to succeed, is Lloyd C. Douglas's "inspirational" Doctor Hudson's Secret Journal (Houghton Mifflin, $2.50), sequel to that classic of spiritual horse -doctoring, Magnificent Obsession. Perennials in any group of novels are a certain number which appear to have been written because: 1) their authors...