Word: fictioneering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Edouard Benito) and photographers (Cecil Beaton, Edward Steichen, Anton Bruehl). Its fine arts man is puttery Frank Crowninshield, 75, famed editor of famed Vanity Fair until Vogue gobbled it. Mrs. Chase and courtly Iva Sergei Voidato ("Pat") Patcevitch, successor to Nast, have admitted articles to their pages, but no fiction. "It shows a lack of sustained thinking," Pat thinks, "to run fiction in a fashion magazine . . . it is distracting...
...tales are set in Washington, where the author spent part of the war in the OWI. They gleam with tarnished Army brass, crawl with Army wives as loose as granny knots. The Captain's Tiger will add little to Weidman's reputation, shows that even tough-guy fiction can be written to a formula as predictable as slick-paper romance...
...described as England's foremost living novelist, he hasn't written a novel since A Passage to India (1924). The four other novels he wrote earlier, all fairly short ones, came in a feverish burst of activity-for him-between 1905 and 1910. The rest of his fiction includes only a dozen short stories, written before World War I and long out of print in the U.S. They have now been collected in one volume for the first time. Old as they are, they bear none of the scars of age; their disembodied timelessness is a witness...
Readers who like their fiction served with tea and crumpets in an atmosphere of tea cozies and grate fires will probably like this novel. In writing it, Author Dickens (great-granddaughter of Charles) pays her respects to the time-honored story of the patient-this one a wounded soldier-who falls in love with his nurse. But she has also created an affectionate picture of a Shropshire household. The Happy Prisoner exudes a country-fresh odor of plowed earth and drying horse blankets...
Like Sartre's first novel, La Nausée (Nausea), and his plays (TIME, Dec. 9), The Age of Reason is an attempt to translate philosophy into fiction. The Age of Reason is the first volume of a trilogy which will chart the salvation of contemporary man. In this first installment, however, nobody is saved; the characters are condemned, instead, to simmer in their own existentialist juices-a form of Sartrian purgatory from which they all will presumably be able to free themselves in the other two books...