Word: fictional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...while Anna is no Nordic fairy tale, it isn't social history either. Gronoset has kept his editorial intrusions to a minimum, and so the book reads more like fiction than journalism. Anna is her own story, and not of the world around her. It demands the reader's sympathy, not for Anna's sufferings, but for her attempts to live life fully and well...
...life, the lean and ambitious soldier fought bravely, though in the end vainly, to shape history to his personal specifications. When he died of a heart attack last week at the age of 87 in his exile capital of Taipei, he was still clinging to the sacred fiction that it was he and nobody else who was the legitimate father of all of modern China. His death could hardly have been more dramatically timed. To Chiang, the rout of anti-Communist forces in Indochina must have seemed the inevitable continuation of the long and losing Asian struggle against Communism...
...Passenger has the anxious ambience and level melancholy of Graham Greene's fiction, but unlike Greene, Antonioni lets the narrative ravel...
...final words on finance as well. "Banks and the money system," he observes, "are like delicate machinery ... let one component get seriously out of hand because of greed or politics or plain stupidity, and you imperil all the others." Hailey apparently does not feel the same way about fiction. The insider's details that give his novel its texture simply bury its feeble literary qualities...
Last week Hewish's receipt of that award became embroiled in a bitter controversy. At a press conference at Montreal's McGill University, Britain's Sir Fred Hoyle, a noted astronomer, theoretician, science fiction writer (The Black Cloud) and scientific gadfly, had charged that Hewish "pinched" the prize for himself by failing to give Jocelyn Bell proper credit. Asked by a reporter if he considered it a scientific injustice to leave Bell out of the award, Hoyle replied: "Yes, I think it was a scientific scandal of major proportions...