Word: fictioneers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lutes to Lumia. For all its science-fiction appeal, the use of light in art is not exactly new; all art depends on light in one way or another. Light rays mold the light and shadows on the surfaces of sculpture, reflect from pigments to give the eye its impression of form and color. But in traditional art, color is constant, not kinetic. And even the purest oil or watercolor pigments inevitably reflect not pure color, but a mixture of colors. The present-day luminist's dream of both movement and purity has had to await the 20th century...
...puts it, the "syntheses of understanding which made common speech possible no longer work." Today, Steiner notes, vast domains of meaning are ruled by nonverbal languages such as mathematics or symbolic logic; those who live beyond the veil of science and its mathematical languages inhabit only an "animate fiction...
...traditional springs of language have gone dry. Fiction, Steiner reports, is alive and hiding-in the land of fact. As Thomas Hardy noticed, "Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened." Hence the screaming horrors, outrageous sex fantasies, nightmares of loneliness now faking it as novels. Fiction is either surrendering its majesties to non-fiction or hybridizing with the new languages of symbolic communication. John Hersey's finest book, his seven novels notwithstanding, is still Hiroshima. Truman Capote freezes a murderous poetry into In Cold Blood. Rachel Carson...
Writing a novel about the capital is like writing one about Hollywood-even truth is parody. In this political fiction, Gore Vidal (The Best Man) tries hard to bring the Washington scene of 1937-52 to life, but to little avail...
Stauffer enrolled in Mrs. Wood's course and ended up reading fiction at more than 2000 words a minute. Next, he organized a class of about 20 hardheaded faculty members, including the University president, the Librarian, the Dean of Students, and the Dean of the School of Engineering. According to Stauffer, two persons dropped the course for personal reasons and those who remained reported markedly increased rates and satisfaction with the course in general...