Word: fictioneering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fiction? South Africa's unsmiling old (67) Finance Minister Nicolaas Christiaan Havenga went right ahead anyway. He ridiculed the Fund's objections. Said he: "It is becoming increasingly clear . . . that . . . the fiction that gold is worth only $35 an ounce cannot endure much longer. This is an international problem and will soon be the touchstone of the success or failure of the Fund...
...realize that line scans?-'Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime!' By that time," says Marquand, "it was clear that I wasn't taking copywriting quite seriously enough." He decided to go back to Newburyport, try to write fiction...
...thought it was a mistake and few besides his publisher, the late Alfred McIntyre of Little, Brown, encouraged him. When it won him the Pulitzer Prize, the first thing he did was to get on the phone and rib the people who had told him to stick to magazine fiction...
...impelled to write the article is unclear. That Harvard's Jewish students rank high scholastically, that they are active in extra-curricular groups, and that they are not in the clubs are facts well-known to those who care about them. It's a fine idea to run non-fiction research articles; but this reviewer cannot see the raison d'etre of a basically divisive statistical outline...
...fiction pieces in the issue, "The Gooks" seemed a better job than Dennis Fodor's dialogue story. The former is a fine study of its three soldier principals, with restrained dialogue and subtle development; the latter is too glib, too flashy in dialogue without the insights and basings necessary for a competent story. This comparison is not intentional nor malicious, but successive reading of the two stories brings out rather sharply that what is good in one is the chief failing of the other...