Word: fictional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Instead, she likes to discuss "Myrtle's life force" or "Monkey's élan." In much the same way, she will talk about "the essences" of friends or colleagues. She feels that she has learned much from Scientology, Ex-Science Fiction Writer L. Ron Hubbard's free-floating religion. Black keeps an E-Meter, which indicates emotionally charged words, close at hand. It measures "biofeedback emotional response," she says. "Scientology is a group of knowledge to handle and get rid of inexplicable behavior. It has cleared my mind...
...soldier as a morally lobotomized professional is a familiar 20th century item. Indeed, pride in professionalism has too often become the true refuge of the scoundrel. Yet Buchheim skillfully dodges these issues by casting his book as documentary, fly-on-the-wall fiction. Its amount of factual authenticity about the 220-ft. submarine and its innards is mesmerizing. Technical data about pressure hulls, diesel engines, electric motors, torpedoes and underwater navigation form a web of fascinating distraction. The incessant diving, ogling of manometers and Papenberg gauges, and the flooding and blowing of ballast tanks run like a litany throughout...
...editors saw the manuscript before Kearns submitted it to the Government Department Frwin A. Glikes, president of Basic Books, and Michael Rothschild a fiction writer...
...original "love and adventure" formula, away from modern "lust and bloodlust." And you even leave out most of the "love," to concentrate on your heroes-intrepid rabbits surviving against all obstacles. Richard Adams wrote that fantasy and called it Watership Down: it won both British awards for children's fiction in 1972, and then came to roost in the best seller lists for well over a year. Among other hyperbolic comments was this one in The St, Louis Post-Dispatch: "Anyone who can read English should read this book...
...children persuaded him to write down the tale, how publisher after publisher rejected it because it was too long and intricate to be children's literature. His eyes gleam, and it's impossible to interrupt him as he goes over the history of the two children's fiction awards (about this time his agent, a rather large woman, stops paying attention to the interview); then he says that only four other writers have even sold a million paperback copies in England-Homer, Chaucer, George Orwell, and D.H. Lawrence-but he discounts Lawrence because he thinks the book was Lady Chatterly...