Word: fictioneering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...facts would indicate otherwise. In addition to three competitions held during the course of the year, which attract upwards of one hundred and fifty candidates, the magazine makes a further canvass of competition courses, seeking out their most capable work; and is responsible also for the Story Magazine fiction contest, which this year, for example, attracted some fifty contributions. That there can be possible objection to the material printed is readily granted; but the Editors of the Advocate, in choosing work, place no restrictions on subject matter or theme, limiting themselves exclusively to the literary value of the work submitted...
With regard to Mr. Freedman's complaint that the Advocate prints unsufficient (sic) fiction reflecting "college life," one can only reply that the Advocate has never set itself up as a literary version of the Crimson, that if the contributors choose to occupy themselves with what Mr. Freedman so quaintly described as "Freud and frou-frou," it is in itself a reflection of a prevalent spirit, and that any significant change in the contents of the magazine will come not through peevish, unsubstantiated complaints via the daily press, but rather through attention to the elementary principals of literary form. Marvin...
...call the Advocate unrepresentative because its fiction and poetry is completely dissociated from Harvard undergraduate life and almost completely so from life in general. I have no quarrel with its book reviews...
ROME--The Rome radio said tonight, in commenting on President Roosevelt's speech, that "regardless of juridical fiction, the United States actually is at war with the Axis...
...Eliot's Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock into the language of a Saturday Evening Post serial. Years of entertaining readers of The Ladies' Home Journal, McCall's, etc., brought Marquand enough money so that he could try his hand at more serious fiction. But thanks to that rigorous training, his serious books are 1) far easier reading than literature needs to be, 2) almost as profitable as the serialized adventures of his Japanese sleuth, Mr. Moto...