Word: fictioneering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Partridge analyses are liberally flavored with allusions to the Bible, history, mythology and fiction (Gilbert & Sullivan and the Pickwick Papers are great favorites). Sometimes he personifies the elements (a lagging raincloud is a "queenly tragedienne, making a majestic exit into the wings"). Sometimes literal-minded listeners write him long, cross, reproving letters...
Call Northside 777. James Stewart heads an expert cast in a good, hard piece of fact-fiction about journalism and justice in Chicago (TIME...
...shoot stories based on actual fact, in actual places. The leader in making this kind of movie is 20th Century-Fox, which has proved with The House on 92nd Street, 13 Rue Madeleine, Boomerang! and Kiss of Death that semi-documentary "locale" films can compete successfully with studio fiction. All of these films except Boomerang! were directed by Henry Hathaway. Hathaway's new picture, Call Northside 777, is a fine addition to the list...
...tidily removed from the path of true love that the whole business seems as manipulated as a shell game. Because all the bad people are so extraordinarily nasty, the good people look more mawkish than they deserve to. And as is so often the case in sentimental fiction, the teariness goes hand in hand with some excruciating whimsy. (Sample: two housemaids, the Misses Jinks, one tall, one short, are called High...
With the one exception of the last number of the Advocate, the standard of the fiction in the two magazines is far below that of much of the material written for the College's advanced composition courses. The magazines, which exist as an outlet for student writing, are crying for the good material that is left to languish on a shelf or on the desk of some New Yorker secretary. Student readers and editors both suffer; while every literary hopeful is losing a unique chance to publish and be read, even if only by a small following...