Word: fictional
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...tale and a murder story round out the collection. It is an admitted literary curiosity, but it bridges the Centuries with surprising naturalness. It is not risking too much to guess that the Soochow reader of that day would have found it considerably harder to adjust to contemporary U.S. fiction...
Advise and Consent, by Allen Drury. The novel is overlong (616 pages), and the prose something less than sparkling; but New York Timesman Drury knows his way about Washington. Few readers will need any help finding the fact behind the fiction...
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When asked their views of the Deity, a very small number of non-believers--16 per cent--felt that God was "a fiction unworthy of worship." When asked their reasons for their present attitude to religion only 8 per cent of the non-believers attributed it to "parental influence." These students' decisions were very definitely individual and independent--of the nine suggested reasons for their apostasy, none received a significant majority. These non-believers are, however, generally willing to recognize the value of religion for other students; only 10 per cent felt any need to "enlighten others by persuading them...
...FICTION 1. Exodus, Uris (2) 2. Advise and Consent, Drury (4) 3. Lady Chatterley's Lover, Lawrence ( 1 ) 4. The Ugly American, Lederer and Burdick (3) 5. Doctor Zhivago, Pasternak (7) 6. The Art of Llewellyn Jones, Bonner (5) 7. Dear and Glorious Physician, Caldwell (6) 8. California Street, Busch 9. The Cave, Warren 10. Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris, Gallico (9) NONFICTION 1. For 2? Plain, Golden (1) 2. The Status Seekers, Packard (2) 3. The Years With Ross, Thurber (4) 4. How I Turned $1,000 into $1,000,000 in Real Estate, Nickerson...