Word: fictioneering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pounds, going soon to the troops abroad. Into these weatherproof, shock-absorbing cases the Army packs a long-and short-wave receiving set, a phonograph turntable, 50 phonograph records, 25 half-hour transcriptions of top network commercial programs, a collection of songbooks, several harmonicas, 100 paperbound volumes of recent fiction, spare batteries and tubes...
...compose the second* opera under its Composers' Theater plan for opera suitable for colleges and little theaters, i.e., easily cast and staged. Commission for the libretto went to his close friend Paul Horgan, poet, novelist, artist, author of the Harper prize novel, The Fault of Angels, other fiction about the Southwest. The resulting A Tree on the Plains is a musically modest opera, occasionally rising to heights of beauty, mainly important as a signpost that opera is turning from an exotic plant into a wayside flower, part of the American scene...
...stated that the most interesting literature after the war "will doubtless be written by people who have had an active part in the conflict," and there will be a notable increase of autobiographical fiction. America, according to the professor, will probably produce more successful literature after the war than Great Britain. British writers have so far produced no literature which is likely to last. It seems that they used up most of their feelings about war during the Spanish crisis...
...book thus touted is Manuel Komroff's In the Years of Our Lord (Harper; $2.50), a new novel about the life of Christ to add to the brief fiction shelf which includes Lew Wallace's Ben Hur (over 2,000,000 copies since 1880), George Moore's pale The Brook Kerith (1916), Bruce Barton's Rotarian The Man Nobody Knows (1925) and Sholem Asch's lush The Nazarene (1939). (Some would include Kenan's famed Vie de Jesus...
...prospective concentrator should not consider the present setup as final. For the past two years, the Department has been trying a new way of covering the vast field of English Literature. Six roughly chronological groups have been set up and each one subdivided into subjects like poetry, drama, fiction, or individual authors. All this is explained in detail in the tutorial bibliography, which future concentrators should purchase at the Coop and look over. The groups which are listed in the bibliography are covered in tutorial and in regular course work...