Word: fictional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most ambitious, My Father's House (Kline & Levin), is the first full-length work of movie fiction to be made in Palestine. Story and script are by Meyer Levin; direction is by Herbert Kline (The Forgotten Village); most of the actors are amateurs. The film is the story of a European boy who gradually comes to realize that he will never again see his parents, who were killed by the Nazis. With the shock of this realization, he regresses into neurotic infancy and is slowly healed by the knowledge that all Israel is "his father's house." Much...
...third story, "fadeout," does not approach the standard of competence of the rest of the fiction. The author utilizes flashbacks in a most depressing and trite manner, to show a man's supposed thoughts while he is dying of a war wound. Perhaps the last few words will give a clue to the category to which this short story belongs: "But the whirlpool began to suck him down again. It was so comfortable. So easy. Sinking back, fading...fading...
Rape & Non-Fiction. In his younger days, Huntington ranged all over the world-to the Near East, Latin America, Chinese Turkestan-always compounding generalizations to explain why human beings, provoked by weather and geography, behave as they do. He kept an eye open for such relevant material as the relation of rape to the seasons (highest in June); the proportion of non-fiction lent by U.S. public libraries (lowest in the South); the relation of climate to monotheism (it does best in deserts...
Professional critics are rarely light enough on their feet to write good fiction themselves. Columbia University's Lionel Trilling has tried, and sometimes succeeded. The Other Margaret, his best short story, has become a small classic on the life of Manhattan "liberal" intellectuals and their children. Now he has written his first novel. It gets its title from the opening words of The Divine Comedy,* but in other ways has nothing in common with Dante. It is, in fact, a good and honest novel about the modern inability to accept such a hell and heaven as Dante imagined...
...turned up to tell Laskell that he had left the Communist Party and was afraid the Communists would kill him. Laskell thought Maxim was being unduly melodramatic, but got him a job on a liberal magazine (which sounds somewhat like the Nation, where Professor Trilling's wife is fiction critic). Laskell had a hard time staying a "liberal," but after much soul-searching he succeeded...