Word: fictioneering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strayed from its convoy. Director Pat Jackson's amateur actors-all real seamen with their own wartime experiences on their minds-are better than greasepainted professionals could ever hope to be. The picture will delight those who are surfeited with the bogus posturing and declaiming of most wartime fiction...
...Sister Kenny. Well-made pro-Kenny biography that blends fact, fiction and propaganda (TIME, Sept...
...will be spitted like a hog," muttered one of Napoleon's unimaginative professionals. But Henri Beyle, in whom genius and absurdity were uniquely compounded, somehow survived-and under the pen name of "Stendhal" immortalized his adventures in soldiery in two great works of fiction: The Red and the Black and The Charterhouse of Parma...
...This frozen-mammoth report is one of the many curious items in Animal Tales. Young (35) British Naturalist Ivan T. Sanderson has gathered material from all over the world for his anthology-sober science as well as "impossible fantastic fiction." In an elaborate series of prefatory remarks, he tries to explain and analyze his selections. The best of them need no analysis; the worst are merely gushy pieces about friendly yaks and darling koala bears. Among the best selections...
With the appearance of his "Selected Poems" in 1943, followed by the publication some two months age of his latest novel, "All The King's Men," Robert Penn Warren gives evidence that he has arrived at the height of his powers, both in fiction and poetry, and is one of the two or three most vigorous artists now working in American letters...