Word: fictionalizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What makes A Brighter Sun shine more steadily than most current fiction is a freshness of speech and locale that is as welcome as its direct, unsurprised look at life. Author Selvon still has a way to go as a craftsman in fiction, but his native lingo rings true, and the native squalor and insular ignorance have been triple-distilled and mixed with his ink. At the very least, he knows what poor Tiger learned the hard way: "You don't start over things in life; you just have to go on from where you stop...
...case in point. The Gulf Company's refusal to sell at a loss produced a dearth of oil which was alleviated only when the Petroleum Administration for Defense (which is independent of the OPS) persuaded eleven large companies to enter a voluntary agreement to sell oil below cost. The fiction of control on the one hand and its arbitrariness on the other are not much of a recommendation for the program's continuation...
...cult, L. (for Lafayette) Ron (for Ronald) Hubbard has whipped up the bastard word "Scientology," which he defines as "knowing about knowing" or "the science of knowledge." His latest ology is compounded of equal parts of science fiction, dianetics (with "auditing," "preclears" and engrams), and plain jabberwocky.* Hubbard has preached his gospel to the British; he spent last week drumming for converts in Philadelphia. Awed by his own accomplishments, Hubbard has awarded himself the degree of "D. Sen."-doctor of Scientology...
Television may have cut into the kids' reading time, but it did not stop their hopeful parents from buying books for them. Juveniles had one of their great years, accounted for at least 10% of all book titles published. Science fiction also went rocketing ahead...
...FICTION...