Word: fictional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...queen, Christina of Sweden was something of a flop. Her reign lasted only ten years; then she converted to Roman Catholicism, abdicated, moved to Rome, and became a national embarrassment. As a historical personage, she inspired more fiction than fact with her bizarre ways. Greta Garbo played her on the screen in 1934 as a vamp who went disguised as a man, washed her face with snow, and proclaimed that she expected to die "not an old maid but a bachelor...
...back in surrealist style. Practically every philosophy is put in the pillory. Barth contrives to blaspheme against, and maybe illuminate, both Judaism and Christianity, as well as the central tenet of 20th century humanism-that all life can be accounted for in terms of reason. In this prodigious, labyrinthine fiction, the reader is constantly baffled and bamboozled by trap doors and intellectual booby traps. Reading Giles Goat-Boy, and debating its meaning, will surely be one of the most bracing literary exercises of 1966 and beyond. It is a satire of major import...
...KNOCKOVER, by Dashiell Hammett. In a collection of his early detective stories, the late founding father of the tough-guy school of fiction proves that he is still at the head of his class...
...FICTION...
...scene is not science fiction. Storm-spotting sensors and the micrometeorological predictions of an orbiting weatherman are well within the reach of today's technology, giving man for the first time in his history the tools at least to tame, if not to conquer, the weather. Weather research has experienced a breakthrough in the past few years, and scientists around the world are rushing to take advantage of what the National Academy of Sciences calls "this new and enormous power to influence the conditions of human life." This year alone the U.S. Government has published some 1,700 pages...