Word: fictioneering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...public, the writing career of Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre has unreeled itself both forward and backward in the past five years. His latest plays (or what is left of them after translation) have been produced in Manhattan, while publishers have busied themselves resurrecting his prewar fiction. His second book, The Wall, a volume of short stories first published in France in 1939, was brought out in the U.S. last year (TIME, Dec. 27). It is now followed by his first and most famous novel, Nausea, a book that made a splash among Paris intellectuals in 1938. Sartre's recent...
Falling into the semi-fiction category are sociology courses on Russia, the United States, France, Germany, England, the Near and Far East and many others. Primarily from the sociological point of view, these courses contain much History and are as well adapted for the non-concentrator or new entree into the field as they are for the well-initiated...
...first week, Ruppel fired Articles Editor Walter Ross and Art Director Tony Palazzo. (Said Palazzo: "It was only the second time I spoke to the guy. The first time was when we were introduced.") Fiction Editor Kenneth Littauer hadn't waited to see what would happen; when he heard Ruppel was coming, he went...
...team: Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. The last time Fred and Ginger whirled across the screen together (The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle, 1939), they were impersonating the famed ballroom dance team of the pre-World War I era. In The Bar-kleys, despite a thin veneer of fiction which makes them husband & wife, they are impersonating the world-famous cinema dance team of the '30s: Astaire & Rogers...
Without Magnolias is largely concerned with a kind of Negro life seldom treated in fiction: the academic and intellectual life. The most interesting conflict in the 'book develops between two men who, by type and training, are least inclined to go at each other's throats: the president of a small Negro college and the white editor of a small liberal newspaper. Each thinks he is working for equality, but Editor Cal Thornton is on the board that approves President Ezekiel Rogers' annual budget. To the shame of both of them, the time comes when Editor Thornton...