Word: fictionalizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bright notion to use someone who had not read anything more recent than Robinson Crusoe to review my Galaxy Reader of Science Fiction [TIME, April 7]. To be expected, however, was the primitive satirical device of too-brief synopses to indicate absurdity. Shakespeare, by this method, reduces to boy meets girl...
...second category in the non-fiction group is what one may call sociological studies. These attempt a broad, objective survey of some particular field. One example of such work is "Traders in Women: A Comprehensive Survey--of White Slavery," a sensational expose of white slavery practices from Bombay to Brooklyn...
Haynes breaks down the collection of erotica into several classifications. In the fiction division, three levels exist. On the first is the Lawrence novel, Miller's endeavors rank in the second class, while on the third level are the so-called "drug-store novels...
...fiction group, Haynes pointed out several categories. Probably the largest group in the Widener assemblage is formed by the psychological studies in sex-treatments of narcissism, bisexuality, homesexuality, frigidity, and other variations...
Shapley had been accused of trying to stop publication of "Worlds in Collision" in 1950, a charge he denied vigorously at the time. Although the work immediately climbed to the top of non-fiction bestseller lists, the MacMillan Company suddenly discontinued distribution in the face of great controversy...