Word: fictional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Call Northside 777. James Stewart heads an expert cast in a good, hard piece of fact-fiction about journalism and justice in Chicago (TIME...
...fiction, all of which is by Harvard contributors, only James McGovern's "The Sounding Brass" arouses any deep interest in its characters. The story is about a priest who has to go to tell one of his parishoners that she cannot keep the body of her son, killed in the war, in her house indefinitely. The Father's doubt and inability to communicate are expressed convincingly through the unrestrained, almost laconic writing. The rest of the fiction is much less impressive. "The Kite," by George Bluestone, describes an uninteresting little boy watch his uninteresting little friend fall off a tenanment...
Since its rebirth almost exactly a year ago the Advocate has only once or twice been able to put its hands on the outstanding fiction or poetry that is sometimes written by college students--writing that would not seem out of place in the best American quarterlies. Because the new issue has one such story, the magazine is worth looking at, despite its lack of other merits...
Call Northside 777. James Stewart in a good, hard piece of fact-fiction about journalism and justice in Chicago (TIME...
...Frederick A. Cook, who claimed to be the first man to have reached the North Pole, threatened to bring a libel action (Author Mirsky had glacially described his account of his polar trip as "exciting and well-written, but . . . mainly fiction")*.-Now-revised, mapped, brought up to date-this magnificent history is again available to the public...