Word: throughly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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This book, first published in 1938, is one of Vladimir Nabokov's prehumous works. Like The Real Life of Sebastian Knight and Invitation to a Beheading, it was buried under critical neglect and popular apathy when it appeared, is now gaining a second life through the continuing Lolita boom...
Like the professor of The Blue Angel, Albinus, a middle-aged Berlin art dealer, is pudgy, pompous and naive, a kind of pachyderm in a panic whose downfall is chilling precisely because a sardonic hilarity bubbles continuously through the pathos. In the velvety darkness of a movie theater, Albinus (no...
In the days of Balzac and Galsworthy, the novel could legitimately deal with a businessman's success (through ambition and thrift) or with his failure (through greed, circumstance or the follies of love). A distinctly American contribution to the art of fiction is the discovery that success is failure...
It Happened in Broad Daylight. A slick but effective suspense film written by Swiss Author Friedrich Duerrenmatt (reversing the usual process, he drew his novel The Pledge from the script) in which a psychopath-brilliantly acted by Gert Frobe-and a police inspector glide through frightening shadows.
Du Pont Show of the Month (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). "Heaven Can Wait," a remake of the memorable 1941 movie, "Here Comes Mr. Jordan," about a boxer who becomes world champion through heavenly intervention. With Robert Morley, Anthony Franciosa and Wally Cox.