Word: fictional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...later became a doctor. Mr. Grey was educated at high school in his home town and at the University of Pennsylvania. For a time he was a professional baseball player. He gave it up for fishing, traveling, hunting. He began writing articles concerning his experiences, then turned to fiction with huge success...
...example of the "substantial, informative article" relating to business or political news?unless perhaps an article on the oil scandal can be so classed. In the main, it adheres to the more dramatic type of narrative. It is apparently an attempt to treat news articles by the standards of fiction. In a sense there is ample justification for this attitude. It is the newspaper man's business to vivify and dramatize news, within the scope of Truth. Several notable examples of this function include the Pulitzer Prize story of the eclipse of the sun and a story of photographing...
This evening will also be the occasion for awarding the prizes for the various spring athletic tournaments and the Essay Competition. There was so little to choose between the essay of Harry Reiff '25 on "The Retreating Deity" and J. B. Dowds's on "Types and Tendencies in Fiction" that the Committee of judges decided to lump the first and second prizes, giving $75 to each man. Reiff won second prize in this competition last year...
...pessimistic over man's present aesthetic sense, or, more narrowly, his ability to appreciate good literature and art. No less a writer than Mr. Hamlen Garland, in "the Bookman", sums up the bill board-movie-magazine peril in discouraging terms. His only consolation for the state in which frenzied fiction finds itself, is the doubtful one that time may change affairs, and that another century, may bring to the surface more of the latent "aesthetic sense" in the human race than is now present...
...however, to allow the novel to escape scot-free; and it is this very subservience to science that arouses modern criticism. Speaking at St. Mark's-in-the-Bouerie Dr. Brian Brown unconsciously voiced this disapproval by saying that "Psychology is the hero and heroine of every piece of fiction." It is apparently with the psychological and psycho-analytical novel and play that too many people, according to Dr. Guthrie, have "doped themselves...