Word: fictional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Street is a workmanlike, exciting show, but basically it does not seem different enough from a lot of crime fiction to be worth all the documentary bother. Semi-documentaries are verging, in fact, toward formula. If they are to realize their fine potentialities-or even stay as good as they started, they need new ideas and new problems. Self-repetition is not immediately fatal; but it brings death to the door, and leaves the door on the latch...
...know, in a little more detail, just why these Southerners felt so contrary; what their neighbors thought of them (and vice versa); what their relations were with the Yankees ; and how they managed to survive as long as they did. However, all such questions are swamped in slick-fiction formula. A fiery redhead (Susan Hayward) gets crippled for no good reason and for no good reason gets fixed up again. Her fiance, the swine mentioned above, runs off with her sister (Julie London). An intrepid editor and duelist (Van Heflin) waits Redhead out and finally gets...
...Hall, the London publishing house of which Evelyn's father was head, had brought out his first slim, satiric novel, Decline and Fall. It was a lighthearted little tale of moral turpitude about a young Oxonian named Paul Pennyfeather, who became a teacher without qualifications in one of fiction's most fascinating schools for backward children. He was on the point of marrying Mrs. Beste-Chetwynde, the mother of one of his pupils, when he was thrown into jail. It had come to the notice of the vigilant police that Mrs. Beste-Chetwynde's enormous wealth...
...twelve years, How to Win Friends has sold 3,500,000 copies-excepting classics, a U.S. non-fiction record ("I am probably one of the most astonished authors now living," says Dale Carnegie). How to Stop Worrying, of which 125,000 advance copies are already in print, is likely to make a bestselling bang that will surprise even its sophisticated publishers...
...Nobel award is still the world's outstanding literary prize, and the only one of true international importance. Some critics have complained that the awards have concentrated on authors of distinction in small countries and have overemphasized a kind of contemporary fiction purporting to show simple peasants living close to the soil...