Word: fictional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sister Kenny. Well-made pro-Kenny biography that blends fact, fiction and propaganda (TIME, Sept...
...between Joy and such popular religious novels as The Robe and The Song of Bernadette is the difference between a papal nuncio and a parish priest. Essentially a parable of intellectual temptation, the book is primarily dialectical in method, and almost wholly devoid of the usual stage effects of fiction. It is charged with burning vitality, but its drama exists mainly in the consciences of the characters...
...children from five to nine - who spend most of their time asking "Why, Daddy?" The records will give the right answer to 25 perennial posers such as "Why are bees so busy?" "Why do I have to go to sleep?" Goldberg's formula: mixing solid fact, harmless fiction and sound effects. Sample (from Graphic's What Makes Rain...
Kenneth Fearing's fiction has never had the kick of his verse; his first murder mystery, The Big Clock, has it-the deadpan, make-believe sinister quality, and the terse, preposterous fancy. It is, besides, a thriller with a unique plot...
...PLEASURE OF THEIR COMPANY (653 PP-)-Edited by Louis Kronenberger -Knopf ($5). Subtitled "An Anthology of Civilized Writing" this is a connoisseur's selection of fiction, poetry, drama, essays, in which "urbanity, irony, elegance, skepticism, sophistication, wit, play a leading part." Twenty-one' polished pieces by Petronius, Lucian, Voltaire (all of Candide), Saint-Simon, De Maupassant, Congreve, Pope, Henry James (all of Washington Square), Max Beerbohm, Virginia Woolf, Aldous Huxley, Henry Adams, etc. Excellent choices, in a finely printed volume...