Word: fictional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Expected Swipe. Exactly what this story means each reader may decide for himself; like much genuinely first-rate fiction, it allows for a variety of interpretations because it reverberates with many possible meanings. But no reader is likely to doubt that it will soon find a place as a minor classic in the American short story, a ruthless fable about the human soul that might have come out of Hawthorne...
Teen-age Editors. The magazine gives them low-priced fashions, fiction, sensible articles such as "how to get along with parents" and frank discussions of teen-age problems which other magazines shy away from. Once a year, the teen-agers take over the magazine and supply all the writing and illustrations for one issue...
Newsman Shaplen spent 3½ years in Asia himself, and he has tried to translate its political conflicts into fiction. This leads him sometimes into story trouble; yet his people are no puppets, and his firm narrative skill makes what happens to them seem not only credible but inevitable...
...past couple of years, O. John Rogge has been spending most of his time defending people before loyalty boards, House committees, and also before juries. "Defending" is Rogge's word for it, for he spends the greater part of 'Our Vanishing Civil Liberties' "attacking the fiction that the House Committee (or other government bodies) 'investigates' when its only function is to smear, condemn, and sabotage the legal activities of progressive Americans...
Nausea is the expression in fiction of Sartre's response to being alive. Descartes, who titillated the 17th Century intellectual world, thought he was creating a new philosophy on St. Augustine's premise: "I think, therefore I am." Sartre's fundamental observation, an overstatement of something found in the writings of Kierkegaard and the German existentialist, Heidegger, may be paraphrased as "I exist and find it sickening." The experience recounted in Nausea is one of deep physical and metaphysical horror, well beyond the ennui, already sufficiently sick, that such French post-romantic writers as Baudelaire liked...