Word: fictioneering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...almost exactly as much as she was getting from EGA. Overshadowing these factors was the growing realization of Frenchmen that the world conflict between Russia and the West could not be sidestepped. Frenchmen now applied this new view of the world struggle to their own national problems. The bright fiction of a "third force" between Communism and its opponents was dying hard -but it was dying...
...story originally appeared in the Satevepost and, in many respects, is just an average piece of hack fiction. But it is worked out with sincerity and vigor, and is amenable to movie treatment. Director Hawks gives even the relatively silly episodes with the girl a kind of roughness and candor which make them believable and entertaining. And when Hawks concentrates on men working, or contesting leadership, or merely showing what they are made of, the picture practically blows up with vitality and conviction...
...Barge, and fervently supported Thomas Jefferson. One Crowninshield hanged himself on the eve of his trial in a sensational murder case. Another left an account of his travels (Journal of Captain John Crowninshield at Calcutta, 1797-1798, When Master of the Ship Belisarius*) that is far better than most fiction...
...Cilley a barrel of Madeira wine that he, Hawthorne, would be unmarried twelve years later. He won the bet. For a modern biographer it is almost superfluous to note the sexual distrust, as well as the calculation, in this resolve. What is more important is the lucid analysis, through fiction, that Hawthorne gave to such matters (and indeed to his whole Puritan background) in the years that followed...
...ancient hatreds. Counterposed to Charles is Lucas Beauchamp, an old Negro farmer with some white blood in his veins, who lives in solitary dignity on a patch of land bequeathed by a white ancestor. Lucas Beauchamp is one of the most magnificent and majestic characters in all American fiction. "Solitary, kinless and intractable, apparently not only without friends even in his own race but proud of it," he suggests the reserve and strength of a people inured to suffering and unshakable in its self-possession...