Word: fictional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years as a 'tween-wars Timesman in Moscow, Duranty won a Pulitzer prize for reporting (1932). wrote a best-seller (I Write As I Please) and some undistinguished fiction. A gay and worldly-wise little man, he got to know the Soviet Russians, stored up a vast stockpile of anecdotes for U.S. lecture audiences...
Critic Edmund Wilson's first book of fiction since I Thought of Daisy (1929) is the first event of the year which can be described as "literary." For it is more & more unusual for U.S. writers to try to produce literature which is serious without solemnity, entertaining without shallowness, intelligent without owlishness, socially observant without being dogmatically vindictive, morally acute without being mealymouthed...
Citizens of the U.S. were talking about automobiles and nylons last week. Barbers had difficulty lathering around bitter discussions of strikes. People talked about weather, washing machines, colds, divorce, children's appetites, and at times, after a few drinks, about that fascinating postwar fiction, the frontless evening gown. But the atomic bomb, incomprehensible and unavoidable as taxes and death itself, entered the average citizen's conversation hardly...
Sirs: In the last issue of your magazine [TIME, Feb. 11] you included a discussion of American fiction during the past 30 or 40 years. . . . You appeared to apologize for the fact that the outstanding novelists of the last decade were Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck and John O'Hara. Pardon us, but we had thought that no one need apologize for the splendid writings of these men. However, our real issue with you is the fact that you omitted Thomas Wolfe from your list of our best authors. This is incredible. . . . Although they are unorthodox, his novels which...
...Arthur Vandenberg, he believed that harmony is possible-if: "the United States speaks as plainly upon all occasions as Russia does; the United States just as vigorously sustains its own purposes and its ideals as Russia does; we abandon the miserable fiction, often encouraged by our own fellow travelers, that we somehow jeopardize the peace if our candor is as firm as Russia's always is; we assume a moral leadership which we have too frequently allowed to lapse...