1. The life and times of William Golding
He was then discharged from the Air Force in 1945, married Shirley Held, and then pursued English at New York University. ... Many various magazines, including The Atlantic and The New Yorker, dismissed the book and did not even put it on their best-seller lists. ...
As Marling admits, however, not all Americans bought into the "New Look." ... This new leisure time, the availability of new automobiles, and the freedom provided by new freeway and interstate systems provided families with an opportunity for a different type of "weekend togetherness." ... The definition of art changed as the public accepted the "realism" of artists like Grandma Moses and rejected intellectuals and the New York avant-garde. ... Although her Picture Cook Book, first published in 1950, remained a best seller throughout the decade, the Betty Crocker character aged rapidly in the...