Word: fancifulism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Across Paris, by Marcel Ayme. Twelve fanciful short stories by a French novelist gifted in the art of the impossible.
Singing Environment. Actually, his story needs no fanciful embellishments. Harold George Belafonte Jr. was born 32 years ago in Harlem, son of a seaman in the British merchant marine; his mother was alternately a dressmaker, a baby sitter, a domestic servant. Both parents came from Jamaica, West Indies, and both...
Britain has never fully come to grips with the discovery of electricity. In all but the newest buildings, electrical equipment and wiring run to as many different types and sizes as the fanciful British mind could devise. There are fused plugs and unfused plugs, plugs with two prongs and plugs...
Across Paris, by Marcel Aymé. Twelve fanciful short stories in beautifully wrought irony by a French novelist gifted in the art of the impossible.
As a matter of fact, pro wrestling ain't even a sport. It has not come close since the mid '30s, when the public began to tire of watching such "shooters" (honest wrestlers) as Jim Londos the Golden Greek and Ed ("Strangler") Lewis sweat through stolid hours of...