Word: fictioneering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Temps swept debate aside, came out flatly for a new and stiffer attitude toward the U. S. S. R. "The friend of our enemies, Russia, is our enemy, whether we wish it or not. She should be treated as such. Why should we put up any longer with a fiction...
From Romulus and Remus, mythical wolf-suckled founders of Rome, to modern times, the world's folklore is full of tales of human children reared in the wilds by animals, and such tales have flowered in fiction from Kipling's Mowgli to Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan. Very few, nevertheless, are the cases, authenticated to the satisfaction of science, of moppets growing up in forest or jungle without human contacts, whether with or without animal foster parents. One authentic woodland waif was the "Wild Boy of Aveyron," found in a French forest in 1799. Others were Amala...
Richard Wright is a 31-year-old, Mississippi-born Negro who two years ago won a $500 prize competition with a collection of short stories titled Uncle Tom's Children. Among them were the most powerful lynching stories in U. S. fiction...
When King George V named little John Buchan to be his Governor General of Canada in 1935, Canadians knew him only as the prolific author of nearly 50 books. In England his fame rested chiefly on his immensely popular adventure fiction. "Mr. Buchan," a London newspaperman asked him, "how would you describe yourself?" "I am a typical Scot of the border breed," wryly replied John Buchan...
...biographer of a man three centuries dead has his choice of producing a work of scholarship or of telling a story. If he tells a story he might as well call it fiction because that it will largely be. As such it may nevertheless be an illuminating piece of historical literature, as are Robert Graves's two stories of a Roman emperor (I, Claudius and Claudius, the God). Or it may reach the second-rate level of a plausible, readable and honest tale like The Star-Gazer, which is a freely fictional novel of the life of Galileo...