Word: fictional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sister Kenny (RKO Radio) is a handsome, emotional film biography, skillfully knitted together out of interesting fact, harmless fiction and debatable propaganda. It will probably entertain most moviegoers-and it will most certainly raise the hackles on the American Medical Association's collective neck...
...Land and the Well is written with warmth, and spiced with touches of romantic rivalry and marital passions. But its scope, as fiction, is as carefully limited as the lives of its characters-whose sole ambition is to dig and own their own well. Author Wernher eschews all flights of fancy, all personal philosophizing; her canvas has nothing of the breadth, her prose nothing of the lugubrious weight of The Good Earth. With intelligence and respect she enumerates the everyday joys and sorrows of a people who know all there is to know about the soil, nothing whatever about...
...literary interests are as broad as those of a good-sized college faculty. He has written fiction, biography (Bret Harte), popular meteorology (Storm), a fascinating treatise on U.S. place names (Names on the Land). His latest book is a rambling, unconventional history of the Life & Times...
...Years Before the Mast (Paramount), based on Richard Henry Dana Jr.'s semi-classic, is no more unfaithful to its original than most screen adaptions. Taken as plain fiction, Two Years Before the Mast is a good, rough sea story. Taken as Paramount presents it-as a faithful Dana report of the U.S. merchant seaman's lot a century ago-it sounds and looks like a job of rewriting by one of the more fanatical members of the National Maritime Union...
This description by a Chinese philosopher of the 3rd Century B.C. serves as a prelude to one of the 34 grim studies in contemporary psychosis (that make up Anna Kavan's Asylum Piece. Despite lushness of metaphor and over-ornamentation of style, it is skillful fiction by a 30-year-old Englishwoman who has spent several years working among the insane...