Word: fictioneering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...romantic qualities that a boy could find in these figures -their lonely hardihood, keenness and courage-are combined with a realist's grasp of them as rough and wayward fugitives from society. The idiom of their thought and speech has never been so richly used in fiction...
...author of the nation's number-one non-fiction best seller, "Peace of Mind," speaking on "A Faith for Modern Man" before the Hillel Foundation here, said that man can only find his faith through intellectual maturity, which comes through the proper identification, perspective, and interpretation of his own life and the lives of others...
...drugstore fiction, this novel fills an even simpler prescription than its profitable predecessor, The Foxes of Harrow (which stayed triumphantly high on the best-seller lists for more than a year, was sold to 20th Century-Fox and grossed Au thor Frank Yerby something like $250,000). The hero of The Vixens is lean and hard; he moves with controlled grace, and he says everything softly. The girl is slim and golden, her mouth is a splash (some times a slash) of scarlet, and her perfume is faint, elusive. These two daydreams, so happily cast on any Hollywood...
Rabbi Joshua Loth Liebman, author of one of the nation's top non-fiction bestsellers, "Peace of Mind," will address the final meeting of the Harvard and Radcliffe Hillel foundation at 8 o'clock tonight in Agassiz Theatre. He will speak on "A Faith for Modern...
...through a scrupulous regard for simplicity and historical accuracy. The story of a thousand cattle being driven across 1200 miles of rugged terrain needs expert treatment to maintain a high level of interest without sporadic injections of high-octane melodrama. "The Overlanders" reaches the correct balance between fact and fiction, resulting in a refreshing absence of gun play or fiendish attacks by woolly-headed natives. By careful pruning, the producers have portrayed the grim struggle to save a herd from the Japanese with all its harsh, wearing aspects. A long push to a dried-up water hole comes over...