Word: fictioneers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FICTION 1. The Source, Michener (1 last week...
...most modern of literary conventions, of fairly recent approval, permits sexual play or sexual passion to be described in lavish detail, in four-letter as well as polysyllabic words, in fiction. But a certain reticence and circumlocution, for obvious reasons, is still demanded in the public prints, on radio and on television. Last week British Critic Kenneth Tynan, who doubles as literary director of Britain's National Theater, decided to test that convention and found it still intact...
...adjective, as an expletive, an oath, and even a term of endearment. But, as Tynan quickly learned from the uproar that followed his pronouncement, there is still a considerable gap between private usage and public sensibility. The novel may reflect life, but life does not yet completely imitate fiction...
This winter Jones will continue work on the second volume of his history of American culture, O Strange New World. He won the 1965 Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction for the first volume. Next summer at Cornell, Jones will teach the same material he was to have taught at Texas...
...Buyers. Half the magazine was given over to fiction, light verse and criticism. The rest was primarily the colonel's own leering, impertinent gossip. ("Mr. Henry Sloane has been looked upon as a complacent husband who wore his horns too publicly." "Miss Van Alen suffers from some kind of throat trouble-she cannot go more than half an hour without a drink...