Word: fictioneering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...write history disguised as fiction, not fiction disguised as history. My Mr. Milton, allowing for Marie Powell's natural bias against the man who defrauded her mother of her "widow's thirds," is precisely the later renegade Milton-not the earlier orthodox Milton of the Minor Poems-who takes shape as one ploughs through the enormous mass of contemporary evidence provided by his Latin and English works, and by the more scholarly modern studies of his life and times...
Unlike the women in contemporary war fiction, Jane faces V-day without trepidation. Said she: "Adjustments to make? Certainly. John and I are leading different lives now than we did when we were together. But if there was anything basically there to begin with, it won't be so hard to take up normal living again...
...writers of the screen play and the director obviously know a lot less about people than about the formulas of slick fiction. To believe in their characters, or to be moved by anything they do, you will have to be the kind of person who is charmed by hearing an improvident old grandpa (Charles Winninger) addressed innumerable times as "Grandfeathers"; or who can be convinced that a little boy, not trying to be smart-alecky, would say of a flower, "It stinks swell"; or who can be touched by the heavy-handed comedy and pathos lavished...
...light of Time magazine's recent, generally accepted comment ("James' stories are meant for slow reading. A little of them goes a long way. Condensed, mellow, with their felicitous phrases and generous perceptions woven unobtrusively into the slow, deliberate prose, they have a flavor that no other fiction possesses."), considerable interest has focussed on the ability of James and of the current producers to meet the drama's demands of immediate, direct response...
...philosophical pauses, such as clogged the pell-mell action of Anthony Adverse, slow down Captain from Castile. It has all the trappings of romantic fiction: moonlight trysts, carousals, desperate galloping, clashing swords, a gallows scene, the education of an innocent girl in the arts of love by her worldly-wise duenna...