Word: fictioners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Yalta's broken promises was that postwar Poland would be a democracy with a popularly elected government. To keep up this hollow fiction, the Polish Communist Party insists that Poles vote for a preselected slate of Communist candidates. Last week, announcing the results of current elections, Radio Warsaw added a shocked comment: in some villages "less than one-half of those entitled to vote went to the polls," while in others "less than one-half the number of required councilors were elected." The Communist corrective: elections will be reheld and villagers forced to vote...
...dull type to deny that he found some diverting and even arresting reading. The novelists, for all their technical skill, seemed unable to cope effectively with their time, man's fate or even man's heart. And the reading public was on to the situation: nonfiction outsold fiction by a wide margin...
...American writers alive who did not go to college, Hemingway read Darwin when he was ten, later taught himself Spanish so he could read Don Quixote and the bullfight journals. Hemingway has never slept well, and reading is his substitute. Finca Vigia holds 4,859 volumes of fiction, poetry, history, military manuals, biography, music, natural history, sports, foreign-language grammars and cookbooks...
...would be to go shopping for a pack of otter hounds or a brocade waistcoat. But if he reads this volume, undeterred by the crepitation of bursting glue from the spine, he will have exposed himself to more first-class writing than can be found on the entire 1954 fiction list of U.S. and British publishers...
...Korean War. Along the line, he acquired an encyclopedic knowledge of everything that moves in what he calls the "ocean of the sky." Though his book sometimes reads like an airborne Information Please, it offers engaging proof that scientific fact can be at least as strange as science fiction. Is there any meaning to the expression "light as air"? Nonsense, says Murchie, the air surrounding the earth really weighs more than 5 quadrillion tons. Anyone lost at sea? Butterflies offer directions-in-reverse to the nearest coast because their flights over water are generally suicidal-away from land. Trying...