Word: fictionally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nightmare in a Wonderland. In an atmosphere of uncomprehending misery, the platoon is ordered on a reconnaissance patrol on the far side of the island, over the vast peaks of the Watamai Mountains. It is in itself an incident in the war superior to most war fiction, the patrol through a wonderland of grass growing higher than the heads of the men, spiders, and endless spider webs, gnats, buzzing silence, rain and sunlight, golden sand and indigo trees-a nightmare in which one after another is killed. What deepens the irony is that the campaign is successful without the benefit...
...like W. B. Saunders Co. can make big money on Zoologist Alfred C. Kinsey's Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (at $6.50), a lot of other publishers would like to get in the act. This week, with the Kinsey Report still high (No. 3) on the non-fiction bestseller list, publishers were scrambling to turn out volumes appraising Kinsey's statistics, arguing with Kinsey's conclusions-or just riding the Kinsey bandwagon...
Vivien Leigh is lashed about by the tremendous role of Anna like a pussy cat with a tigress by the tail. She is not assisted by a script which insists on sentimentally ennobling one of fiction's most vehemently average women. Irish-born Kieron Moore, Britain's newest cinematinee idol, is badly miscast as the debonair Vronsky; he appears to be an idol with feet of peat. The principals suffer further by comparison with Sir Ralph Richardson, whose Karenin fairly lumps out the screen with its three-dimensional reality...
Twelve 0'Clock High! is a "novel" about wartime flying that should be dismissed as fiction and read as a document. Written by two 20th Century-Fox screen writers, it could be shot from the cuff by any resourceful director (Hollywood bought it before publication). Its authors were also among the first U.S. flyers to bomb Hitler's Fortress Europe...
Henry James.was the Winston Spencer Churchill of fiction. Portly and bald, and one of the greatest talkers in literature, half-English by choice, as Churchill is half-American by birth, colorful, eloquent, holding fast to his opinions in the face of staggering reverses, he was to novelists what Churchill was to Britons in World War II-their battered but undefeated champion. He was the great embodiment of the idea that fiction is an art, and that it is art that makes life, that gives it interest and meaning...