Word: fiction
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Does this mean that, as in popular fiction, the parents are guilty? Emphatically not, says Bergler. "No parent-not even the parent who directed the affairs of the nursery foolishly-has the power to induce neurosis in his children." (But many a parent wants to assume the blame, because every parent also has some masochism...
While Mon Petit may play with reality, the audience remains aware that this is fiction, even surrealistic fiction. To heighten this effect, Kautner limits his palette so that orange (the oranges), black (the sophisticates), white (our boy and girl), and grey (the edifices of Paris) predominate. And, of course, the characters seem too attractive to be realistic. Horst Bucholz especially stands out as a sort of Jimmy Dean for the quality trade...
...long are we going to maintain the fiction that the steel strike is a strike against the steel companies? At one time strikes were largely against the owners, but now, at least the big strikes are against the general public...
...body. They have not, if you like, a class consciousness. And so for the Student Council report to say "The National Student Association is premised on the assumption that the American student community, in pursuing a common aim of knowledge, can work together as a group. . ." is to invent fiction...
With Spade and Marlowe as models, hardboiled Private Eye fiction began to crowd the polite puzzlers off America's bookshelves, was in turn hard pressed by the likes of Mickey Spillane and even, strange as it seemed, by mystery stories about honest, intelligent cops...