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Fiction in Review
Trilling, Diana | April 24, 1948 issue

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The article focuses on a book "The Time Is Noon," by Hiram Haydn. The book is set in 1929 and put forward as the documentation of an era, however, aside from a few topical references, the dating of the story is irrelevant. There is remarkable balance Haydn achieves between sensationalism and the appeal to morality: despite the fact that the period is 1929, when the problems of left. wing and liberal politics touched but a tiny minority of the U.S. population. Haydn gives these concerns the proportion and emphasis demanded by our own day, placing his discussions of racial tolerance, Communist tactics, and so on in saving alternation to the sexual chapters, whose appeal is perhaps less high-minded.

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TIME Is Noon, The (Book); DOCUMENTATION; HAYDN, Hiram; ETHICS; COMMUNISM; UNITED States
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