Word: fictioneering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...historical fact, Caesar and Cleopatra lived together in the most literal sense of the phrase. Cleopatra bore him a son, Caesarion, who was promising enough to be assassinated eventually by order of Octavian. In Shaw's charming fiction, they warily skirt the quagmires of passion while the aging political genius, with rueful avuncular irony, helps to convert the puppet Queen from a fierce child into a woman, ripe for Mark Antony's plucking...
...Fiction of Equality. The Big Four foreign ministers had recommended to the Conference that it adopt rules of procedure requiring a two-thirds' majority for any action. The small nations opened the meeting with protests that such a rule would reduce to absurdity the already limited powers of the conference. Australia's stocky, hard-hitting Foreign Minister Herbert Vere Evatt (rhymes with rev it) was spokesman for the small nations as he had been at San Francisco; he went to bat for a simple majority rather than a two-thirds' majority rule. He was bitterly seconded...
...left wide open, including many major issues such as internationalization of the Danube. When Jimmy Byrnes snapped: "Those who fought the war should make the peace," he merely summed up the self-evident half-truth that not all nations are created equal and that a peace based on the fiction of equality would not work...
Bjartur of Summerhouses is the central figure in Independent People. This grim, graphic novel of life on the Icelandic uplands, circa 1900-1920, is the Book-of-the-Month Club's choice for August and, according to the publisher, an "epic in the grand tradition of great fiction." It may be less expansively described as a half-sympathetic, half-scornful portrait of the Icelandic peasant mind, done with broad "epic" touches and special political intent. For Author Halldór Laxness uses his fine portrait, which is drawn in almost Holbein-like detail, as the text...
...world's great fiction traditions none is hardier than the encyclopedic chronicle of French national life. Honoré de Balzac's La Comedie Humaine was a procession of some 90 stories. Then came Emile Zola's 20-volume series of novels, Les Rougon-Macquart. Now Jules Romains' Men of Good Will, a study of French history and habits between 1908 and 1933, has reached its 13th and penultimate volume...