Word: fictioneers
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...FICTION...
After three months of fighting in the remote Andean highlands of central Peru, the Communist bands that President Fernando Belaunde Terry once dismissed as a "mere fiction" still operate. They are now a recognized fact of life. The constitutional guarantees suspended two months ago, putting the country under a form of martial law, are still suspended. Last week the Peruvian Congress went a step farther by authorizing military courts to impose the death penalty on captured guerrillas, and voted $7,400,000 to step up an already major operation against what the lawmakers called "imperialistic Communist aggression...
Divorced. Byron Janis, 37, virtuoso U.S. concert pianist; by June Dickson-Wright, 33, daughter of British Surgeon Arthur Dickson-Wright; on grounds of incompatibility; after eleven years of marriage, one child; in Juarez, Mexico. Died. Shirley Jackson, 45, master of seance fiction, author of The Lottery, chilling tale of a 20th century New England village's annual rite of human sacrifice, and dozens more stories and novels (Hangsaman, We Have Always Lived in the Castle) so horrific that it always surprised readers to learn that all this came from a contented wife and good-humored mother of four...
...around her story, suggesting that Henry II's great-uncle, King William Rufus, died in a ritual cabalistic murder in a sacred wood, and strongly hinting that Henry himself was doing the Devil's work as much as Becket was doing God's. Since Thomas is fiction, not history, Author Mydans need not apologize for her liberties. Nor for her writing, which is smooth when Becket walks in piety and muscular when he is routing the chivalry of France for his king...
...treatise on thought control in the Soviet Union (TIME, May 21). Published this week in the U.S., the book may surprise the reader who expects nothing more than a political document-it is also a work of art. Admittedly, it is not much of a novel; the form of fiction was obviously adopted as a device to protect the innocent from police reprisal. It is, however, a lyric celebration of the rights of man, a spiritual testament of depth and beauty, a cry of pain from the soul of a brave and decent man indecently abused...