Word: fictionalizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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TIME [Oct. 12] mutilated veracity with a little piece of fiction masquerading as fact, entitled "Silenced: a Calm Voice." TIME alleged that the late Governor Dan McCarty "set himself to the job of cleaning up after Governor Fuller Warren." This allegation is not true. There was nothing to clean...
...test of a good fictional character is whether he leads a double life in 1) the writer's imagination, 2) the reader's memory. Joyce Gary, who has created some of the most memorable characters in 20th century fiction, has frequently passed this test with lovable scamps, e.g., Gulley Jimson (The Horse's Mouth), Sara Monday (Herself Surprised). Chester Nimmo, who made his debut in Gary's last novel, Prisoner of Grace (TIME, Oct. 20, 1952), is no scamp but a fireballing politico who marries into money, gets elected to Parliament, enters the Cabinet and finally...
...After graduating from Cornell, she went to work as an ad copywriter, then as a reporter on the New York Post, later switched back to advertising. She joined TIME Inc.'s promotion department as a writer in 1934, left in 1940 and began devoting full time to writing fiction. Of her four novels and many short stories, the most successful has been Gentleman's Agreement, which sold more than 1,600,000 copies. As a columnist, Novelist Hobson is still not sure what she will write. But she is sure that she is "not going...
...implications. May believes, "may be enough ... to drive American historians back into the colonial period or else into writing busty fiction...
...sights of the U.S. "Many [women] sport long conic breasts jutting out like tents from blouses and pullovers . . . They carry them under their chins with the same indifference with which soldiers carry their packs on the back. Strange and unreal breasts they are ... Symbolic appendages ... a fiction...