Word: fictionalizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Naked Streets is another skillful piece of Italian fiction-and another example of the seemingly endless backlog of Italian writing that finds its belated way to U.S. publication. Vasco Pratolini wrote The Naked Streets in 1943, between chores in the resistance movement, and first published it eight years...
Time" runs in 637 dailies around the world, had real-life facts to back up his fiction. On its front page, the Denver Post reached the peak of a campaign to prove that dogs are "man's best friend." The Post was all out to block an anti-dog ordinance in the city council that would virtually force dog owners to keep their pets on a leash or shut up in yards of homes. On its back page the same day, the Post ran a Hatlo cartoon showing a saber-toothed dog tearing the pants off "Mailman McMucilage...
...Word. Shorn of its doublespeak, the word was cynically frank. Henceforth, said the Leader, the Soviet Union will openly and officially export revolution to capitalist countries. Since 1936, when Stalin declared that the "export of revolution is nonsense,"* the U.S.S.R. and its underlings abroad have publicly maintained the fiction that foreign Communist parties are independent, national organizations, unconnected, except by ideology, with the fountainhead in Moscow. Stalin's speech made little attempt to continue the fiction...
...London publisher announced a new book for its next spring list: Satan in the Suburbs, five short stories by Philosopher Bertrand Russell, 80, the first Russell fiction published under his own name. (One of the stories, The Corsican Ordeal of Miss X, was published anonymously in Go magazine earlier this year...
...Weller, Sairey Gamp, Bill Sikes, Barkis, Mrs. Gummidge, for a few-though they have been in a century's deep freeze, are still succulent with life. Though literary immortality is as chancy as other sorts, it looks as though Joyce Cary has already added his quota to fiction's Valhalla: Gulley Jimson, Sara Monday. Mister Johnson, Tom Wilcher. Last week he added two more: Chester Nimmo and Nina...