Word: fictionalizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Report to Uhlan: "This book is dated, dreadfully written and sentimental in tone ... I can't think of any general sales possibilities for this book . . . This is probably autobiographical fiction, since the details of military-school life are exhaustively gone into, and the author is far from inventive...
...Tents of Wickedness, by Peter De Vries. The plot and the people may be familiar in this sequel to Comfort Me with Apples, but the parodies offer a punoramic view of modern fiction...
...their appliances through remote control. A model pressed a button and a dishwasher scooted out of a cabinet and across the floor. At the press of another button, an automatic floor washer and polisher emerged from another cabinet and scurried about like a creature out of science fiction. "Don't you have a machine that puts food in your mouth and pushes it down?" asked Khrushchev with heavy sarcasm. "This is not a rational approach. These are gadgets we will never adopt...
...throw against him. Byrd and Son Harry Jr., 44-year-old state senator, personally made calls and wrote letters for the candidacy of their cousin, Marshall J. Beverley, whose savage (for Virginia) campaign was managed by Harry Jr.'s brother-in-law, James M. Thomson. Almond maintained the fiction that he was not involved in the campaign, but managed to make it apparent where he stood. Boothe beat Beverley by nearly...
...superhighway that curls through the pleasant woodlands surrounding Boston is known routinely as Route 128. But to U.S. industry, it is known more romantically as the Space Highway. Amid the landscaped woods of the industrial parks along commuter-clogged 128 are tucked scores of low, angular buildings bearing science-fiction names: Trans-Sonics, Tracerlab, Microwave, Dynametrics. These plants add up to the biggest and fastest-growing science-based complex* in the U.S., and provide the nation's most impressive proof of the vast new industrial potential of the electronics and space age. Beyond that, they are a dramatic demonstration...