Word: fictionalizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lifetime. In addition to being athletic director and assistant to the president of Long Island University (enrollment: 4,200), busy Bee writes a regular column for the New York Journal-American, manages a productive upstate New York farm, and also turns out magazine articles and books of fact & fiction for children (twelve published). These activities are just Bee's sidelines. His main job: basketball coach of L.I.U., the team with the best early-season record in the East...
Howard Mumford Jones, professor of English, said that he considered Lewis certainly the best fiction writer of the 1920's. His portrayal of such typically American types, imbued with a spirit half of rebellion, half of acceptance, as well as a vivid imagination comparable to Dickens' will make Lewis' name and fame last forever, said Jones...
...question of the mission's fate is settled when the Indian army drives off the Pathans. The question of what turned one of Britain's freshest, most talented short-story writers of the '30s into a postwar author of slick adventure fiction remains unanswered...
...Though he hasn't made very much of his subject, Author Mergendahl deserves a mild cheer for having tried, at least, to write about his Dons and Shelleys, people who are at least as representative of current U.S. life as anybody else, and currently least represented in U.S. fiction. The Beacon Hill set has Marquand, the Chicago slums have Farrell, the Mississippi farmers have Faulkner and the Okies have, or used to have, Steinbeck. In faithful seriousness or satiric affection, lower-income suburbia deserves a look...
Crane's only esthetic creed was "honesty." He did much to release American fiction from the cocoon of euphemism and sentimentality. Technically, he was an Impressionist. Like Flaubert, Chekhov and James, he aimed for "the immediate sense of life, not the removed report." He himself never achieved that summit of craft where art appears to be artless. His oddly arresting similes and metaphors jut up like boulders deflecting the clear stream of his narratives. Many a sentence of Crane's is beaded with the sweat that went into its construction. Despite these deficiencies, his pages twang with...