Word: fictional
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...much of what needs to be told about Javanese servants by catching them in moments of tenderness or bitterness when their blank-faced defenses are down. Best of all, she can describe a life no longer possible without resorting to plantation tears. Yesterday is offered as a bit of fiction. It does not matter how it is read, as imagination or autobiography; the best thing about this book is the fact that the reader is almost never aware of a fine writer...
Miss America Pageant (CBS, 10-12 p.m.). For all those who can stand it once more, the bathing beauties will go through the fiction that they also have other massive talents. Cliff ("Charlie Weaver") Arquette as Grand Marshal may make it all worthwhile...
...their friends, and there are moments of confusion, when it is difficult to be sure just who is who. Yet the device gives full play to Anderson's strongest talent: his grasp of the speech rhythm and idiom of his people. More clearly than in much fiction, it is in the telling that the truth of the tale emerges...
...intensity (a star is blowing up): "Those last exposures did it! ... They show the gaseous shell expanding round the nova. And the speed agrees with your Doppler shifts." His characters may seem as standard as those in any war film (his monsters, though, are quite human), but most science-fiction writers proceed on the assumption, probably correct, that one man's neurosis, however interesting, is not very significant when the solar system he inhabits is about to be demolished...
...FICTION 1. Exodus, Uris...