Word: fictioners
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Among those who have attacked the book since publication are former AEC Chairman Gordon Dean and many leading atomic scientists, including Enrico Fermi and Hans Bethe. The comment of Dr. I. I. Rabi, present chairman of the AEC's General Advisory Committee, is a sample: "A sophomoric science-fiction tale, to be taken seriously only by a psychiatrist...
...family, club and army. After a bout of spiritual beachcombing, the slightly disenchanted heroes generally return to pukka grace. Boston is the city Marquand almost hates to love, but love it he must-though he is not above shaking his own family tree for laughs. Most of the fiction was written for big-circulation magazines, and even the better tales are apt to swerve from the winding lanes of art to the happy-ending highways of commerce. The best of the lot, Merry Christmas, All, starts as a rasping Yuletide battle of the sexes and ends as a mere tempest...
...Dancing Bear, by Frances Faviell, and Acquainted with the Night, by Heinrich Boll. Two exciting accounts, one fact, the other fiction, of Germany and its postwar tragedies (TIME...
...fictions that underlies civilized society is that the jurist is in some sense above mortal men. This is a convenient fiction, for without it there could be no law. Obviously, many judges in the past have been shown wrong; few of their contemporaries, however, are wise enough to say they...
...Although fiction will be given preference, articles with philosophical significance will be included. Planned as a regular feature is a two-page "philosophical" interview with a noted figure...