Word: fictional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This melodramatic incident was not conjured up by a TV scriptwriter or a science-fiction novelist. It actually occurred in Orlando, Fla., a few years ago. Only competent police work and a slip-up by the "bomber" revealed that he was in fact a 14-year-old high school honors student in science who was bent on nothing more than a spectacular hoax. What made the mischief so chilling was that nuclear blackmail by terrorist or criminal organizations is far from inconceivable. It is quite possible that a simple but devastating atomic weapon could now be made...
...fiction do anything for the war in Viet Nam that ten years of TV film clips and a torrent of journalism did not? After all the surfeits of that war-the distant carnage, the fallout of casualties closer to home, the national agony of consciousness and political dislocation in the U.S.-can the imagination of a storyteller offer anything more than a few slice-of-death memories...
...these tales share a kindred urbanity, as might be expected from a longtime contributor of fiction and criticism to The New Yorker. (Gill's present post there is Broadway theater critic.) Many of the characters-clubmen, wealthy matrons, genteel spinsters -could well be the literary grandchildren of Edith Wharton's characters. Gill's narrative voice evokes the kind of man who might be found in one of his own fictional clubs or parlors-a wryly observant uncle or older brother who has moved in wide enough circles to be able to recount a homosexual killing...
...FICTION 1-Watership Down, Adams (5 last week) 2-Jaws, Benchley (3) 3-The Snare of the Hunter, MacInnes (2) 4-Burr, Vidal (1) 5-The Partners, Auchincloss (4) 6-The Fan Club, Wallace (9) 7-You and Me, Babe, Harris (8) 8-Come Nineveh, Come Tyre, Drury(7) 9-I Heard the Owl Call My Name, Craven (6) 10-Fear of Flying, Jong...
...required course at Harvard. As budgets tighten, the upper level courses, which have allowed for considerably more variety and flexibility, are the first to become expendable. The great crime in tampering with them, however, is that these courses--and I am specifically thinking of two that I took in Fiction and Autobiography--have been unique opportunities for undergraduates who have not been confident enough or experienced enough to compete successfully for the limited openings in English C, or other, even less accessible courses. These students and others deserve a chance to write, to experiment, to share new work...