Word: fictionalizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Smacking of Disneyfied science fiction, a scheme such as this one might have been dismissed entirely a few weeks ago −but not since Sputnik. While many scientists will scoff at the details of the Soviet film, they know that some measure of this fantasy might soon become reality...
Every humanist theme and subject was prohibited. According to the communists, literature and other branches of the arts have only one task, to build communism by convincing and agitating the people. This intent was adequately expressed by the schematic characters in communist fiction. The chief characters were...
Author Rand's world shares many characteristics of science fiction-the blue-tinted fluorescent light of literary unreality; the dogged logic with which the illogical is propped up; the melodramatic simplicity that requires no score cards to tell heroes from villains. Such paladins of power and profit as Physicist John Gait, Steelmaker Hank Rearden, Billionaire Francisco d'Anconia all have noble, proudly lifted heads, clear blue (or green) eyes, frank, open expressions. Such blackguards as traitorous Businessman Orren Boyle, Bureaucrat Cuffy Meigs, Parasite Philip Rearden have eyes that are "pale and veiled" or "small black slits" or "blurred...
With plenty of works in progress but no finished manuscript under his arm, Novelist Ernest Hemingway arrived incognito with wife Mary at a midtown Manhattan hotel for a quiet holiday far from his Cuban finca. Meanwhile, two short stories, the first new Hemingway fiction to be published since The Old Man and the Sea in 1952, were being put to bed for the centennial issue of the Atlantic, which will be out at the end of October. Apparently stemming from the experience Hemingway underwent when he was temporarily blinded after his plane crash in Africa in 1954, the stories...
...Zondi, Moroka and Shantytown-from which some 94,000 native workers stream each day into Johannesburg to work for the white man-Basutos, Bechuanas, Xhosas and Zulus live more or less segregated from one another under a government policy designed to preserve tribal instincts and to maintain the fiction that all native labor is transient and will some day return to the bush...