Word: fictionalizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tough trade of espionage, it is an axiom that an exposed spy is disowned by the organization which employs him. Spender and Saplakan, Osmanov and Sarantsev (if they were not propaganda fiction) might have worked for any one of a dozen national or political groups in Western Europe, persecuted and exiled by the Soviet Union. None admitted it. As for the U.S., State Department Spokesman Michael McDermott was emphatic: "We know nothing of these men, and we know nothing of the incidents...
...fascinated by gadgets. He once built himself a camera modeled on a fish eye, and wandered all over town snapping pictures, just to see what the city would "look like to a fish." He took up painting, wrote slick fiction with Arthur Train ( The Moon-Maker; The Man Who Rocked the Earth), produced a book of verse and sketches called How to Tell the Birds from the Flowers ("The awkward Auk is only known/To dwellers in the Auk-tic zone . . ."). He also became a successful sleuth. He helped police reconstruct the bomb used in the Wall Street bombing...
...theater-wise and drama-foolish. Necessarily lacking the fullness of the book, it much less excusably lacks the bite. The second act is an overlong flashback that reduces Charles's whole past to a magazine-fiction romance without appreciably illuminating the present. The third act is just an exercise in suspense over whether Charles will be made vice president...
...year's non-fiction was plummed with good reading, mainly concerned with the middle-road facts of modern life. Most of the war books told of battles long ago. A bookish fellow from another planet-unless he saw David Douglas Duncan's chilling pictures of the fighting in Korea, This Is War!-might have found it hard to believe that the nation was engaged in one of the stubbornest wars in its history...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences has announced that Earl C. Ravenal '52, of Providence, Rhode Island, and Eliot House, has been awarded the History and Literature Prize for 1950-51. The award is $50 for the purchase of any kind of book except current fiction...