Word: fictionalization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stolen Heaven (Paramount) is the first picture in which snub-nosed Olympe (pronounced "oh lamp") Bradna, chubby faced Parisian brunette, has been starred. In preparation for this great event, Paramount floated the innocent fiction that Olympe had never been kissed. Alleged reason: Olympe is 17 and her mother will not leave her alone with a man until she is 18. To this baseless canard, Olympe last week chirped an exception. In a film called College Holiday (TIME, Jan. 4, 1937) she had been kissed in a purely businesslike way by a juvenile named Louis Da Pron. About her private life...
Among scientists the theories of Sigmund Freud are still disputed, most vigorously by former. Freudians. But modern novelists have followed him like children after the Pied Piper. His influence has been the greatest single factor in determining the course of modern fiction, and future literary historians may well refer to Joyce and Mann as great Freudians in the way that Thackeray and George Eliot are now called great Victorians. Freud has exercised a greater literary influence than any other living writer. His 35 volumes are packed with literary allusions, with shrewd criticisms on poetry and fiction, with case histories that...
...Fiction...
...readers remember the pioneer farmers of fiction. For one novel of the calibre of Elizabeth Madox Roberts' The Time of Man, Rolvaag's Giants in the Earth or Hamlin Garland's Middle Border stories, a thousand others appear and are forgotten within the month they are published. A few, like Ruth Suckow's novels of Iowa farm life, are praised but little read...
Robert Clurman '41, has been chosen winner of the Fifth National College Short Story Contest conducted by "Story" Magazine and will receive $100. His story was entitled "The Raincoat" and is a psychological fiction...