Word: fictioneers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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FATHERS, by Herbert Gold. A long, loving search-both forward and backward-for the essence of parenthood; a tribute to that most neglected figure in American fiction -the Jewish father...
...FICTION 1. The Arrangement, Kazan (1 last week) 2. Capable of Honor, Dairy (3) 3. The Secret of Santa Vittoria, Crichton (2) 4. The Captain, De Hartog (5) 5. Valley of the Dolls, Susann (4) 6. The Mask of Apollo, Renault (6) 7. The Birds Fall Down, West (8) 8. All in the Family, O'Connor (7) 9. Five Smooth Stones, Fairbairn (9) 10. Tai-Pan, Clavell...
Borges does not perceive the world as other men do. An eye illness made him blind ten years ago; moreover, his "stories" are not fiction but something more akin to thought patterns. Long ago, he began storing his visions in what he calls the "unstable world of the mind, an indefatigable labyrinth, a chaos, a dream." And out of this darkness, from total recall, flash his scintillas of light...
...Dizzy" had going for him, as Oxford Historian Robert Blake makes abundantly clear, was genius. Not only was he a man of spectacular deeds, he was also a racy and prolific author of social and political fiction (twelve novels), master of the epigram rivaled only by Oscar Wilde and, says Blake with the refreshing lack of equivocation that distinguishes his book, "the best letter writer among all English statesmen...
...cards as they went in, and a written record was kept of their movements. During February the students had been depressed and divided; most hoped that quiet negotiations with influential professors would somehow secure leniency for the accused leaders. But March 13 was an incredible day of instruction: the fiction of legalism ended for even the most moderate students, and by the middle of the afternoon the former president of the Conservative Society was proposing a sit-in and boycott "until the suspensions are rescinded...