Word: fictionalizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Orwell's journalistic standards were high because he felt that he alone was left to tell the truth, since the press of both Left and Right willingly subverted facts to their own brands of fiction. Obsessed by this loss of objective truth ("History is written by the winners" he remarked later), he limited his evaluations to those things he had actually seen. He saw enough to realize that the Spanish Civil War was a rehearsal that it was no war of "the people" against the Fascists, but a war of power hungry groups who used "the people" only...
...general polemic against an entire policy than it does to criticize specific weaknesses in that policy. For in the latter, you are forced to know in some detail what the present policy is. 2. By disagreeing with him, you force the instructor to bend over backwards in grading your fiction lest he seem to penalize you for merely opposing his view...
Frequenters of the local magazine racks have grown accustomed, I suppose, to seeing piles of little booklets devoted to the cult of science-fiction. Generally, these publications have the appeal of Western pulps, with space ships substituted for Faithful Ol' Pinto, ray-gun for the six-shooter, and a mobile-graced beany for the standard ten-gallon...
...these science-fiction pieces, inappropriately named Astounding Science Fiction, is quite different however. It has space-ships of course, and planets, galaxies and stars with all sorts of exotic, Greek-type names, too, but this is a basic ingredient which no science fiction magazine can do without. The stories in ASF are, however, based on calculations and shrewd hypotheses thought up by bona fide scientists, and most of them have an authentic flavor. The writing is certainly competent, though there are too many traces of Nick Carter dialogue to suit my taste. The writers manage to generate tension...
...paper, I would not suggest reading ASF in one concentrated dose. It becomes dull after a while when the veneer of scientific plausibility and shrewd story telling loses its novelty and only the tears remain. But for all that, ASF is produced for more than just the science-fiction devotees, and taken with restraint, is a welcome relief from the heavy tomes of reading period...