Word: fictioneers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Great American Novelist. He entered Harvard at 16, a skinny Brooklyn kid who wanted to study aeronautical engineering. But he discovered Farrell, Dos Passos, and Steinbeck in his first term, and knew then that he wanted to be a novelist. As a junior, he won Story magazine's fiction prize; at the Advocate in those years, he recalls, he was "the favored man of the people...
...Justice Department gets around this divulgence restriction with a legal "fiction" devised by Attorney General Robert Jackson in 1941. The key words are "any person." Jackson interpreted this phrase to exclude persons inside the government, and all succeeding Attorneys General have concurred. This rational has led directly to the idea that the Attorney General can authorize wiretapping...
...FICTION 1. The Arrangement, Kazan (1 last week...
Though this particular episode is fiction, occasional rebellion did occur in the death camps. The story of those camps has been filmed with subtler skill in such movies as Night and Fog and The Pawnbroker. But Director Frank Beyer's stark documentary style and the unaffected pathos engendered by his actors-all unknown in the West-underline a truth that bears reiteration. At a time of utmost degradation, man still has the will to endure, and to prevail...
Critics will never shut up about the beauties of Joyce's fiction, and one could ramble on just as interminably about those beauties that Strick has transplanted intact into his film. But Strick has created beauties more or less on his own, Joycean beauties intensified. The proximity of opposites is dramatized sometimes in his images as they could not be in prose, as when a beautiful girl Bloom ogles on a beach stands and limps off with heartbreaking awkwardness. A row of sandwich men, at another point, file down the street, each wearing one letter of some product's name...