Word: fictional
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Albert J. Guerard, who is on leave, Professor Edel is handling the formidable Comparative Literature 166 ("The largest course I taught at N.Y.U. had about one hundred students"), a course titled Literature and Psychology, and a seminar on James. "Professor Guerard gives a course on the writing of fiction, you know, but I don't write fiction myself," he says. "However, this spring I will give a course in the writing of biography and criticism. A lot of careful thought goes into biographical writing. For instance, how much psychology should one use? I thought I might have the class...
...realize he was quoting him. And James touched his time at so many points. George Moore writes, 'James went to Paris and met Turgenev, William Dean Howells stayed at home and read James.' It is marvelous that an American could take his seat at the European table of fiction so early in our history...
Limited Underwriter. In what has become something close to a CENTO ritual, Pakistan's Qadir at last week's session urged the U.S. to abandon the fiction that it is not a full member of the pact, and Iran's Eghbal outspokenly demanded more U.S. and British aid. But the U.S. had already pumped $470 million into CENTO's three Middle Eastern members in fiscal 1959. "Clearly, the U.S. cannot underwrite all CENTO economic projects," said Secretary of State Christian Herter. Imperfect as CENTO may be, however, the U.S. could not abandon it without shaking...
Best Sellers FICTION...
...Challenge (NBC, Sat. 8:30-9:00 p.m., E.D.T.) is "not a science-fiction series and not a documentary," says its producer, and he is only too right. Challenge is a mixture of some of the trappings of modern engineering and the tedious cliches of old-fashioned melodrama. Theoretically, the show deals with a Government scientist (George Nader) studying the limits of human endurance in dangerous situations. Actually, it presents such high-flown nonsense as a story of top-rank researchers sitting out a nuclear war in an atomic submarine and suddenly tumbling to some old problems such...