Word: fictionalizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more than merely get himself around the streets of another country. He can communicate intelligently with a foreigner and read his literature. The number of French works in the original read by American students is infinitessimal compared to the hordes of untranslated good American novels and non-fiction Dutch students devour...
...first day of the strike to 250,000, went to 500,000, then was forced to skip a few days because "we're awfully tired." Newspaper-hungry readers bought magazines so fast that one newsstand operator pointed out: "All I got left is cheesecake and science fiction...
...Pamela was a sham, not so much the valiant defender of her virtue as its coy auctioneer, shrewdly holding out for the highest bid. Fielding's Shamela is an honest doxie who blats about her "Vartue" from time to time, but belongs essentially to the long line of fiction's profiteering amorists reaching to Scarlett O'Hara and Amber...
...publicity. We feel strongly, therefore, that every paper has a responsibility to be intelligently subjective, to discriminate among various statements by different men, and to give to most news space and therefore, If you will, the most support, to those who base their utterances on fact not sensationalized fiction...
14th Century Rome (Bettina Colonna, by Michel Durafour; Bobbs-Merrill). A souped-up account of the meteoric political rise and fall of Cola di Rienzo (fact), and how lovely, ruthless Bettina won and lost him (fiction), enlivened by pre-Renaissance skulduggery and dalliance...