Word: fictioners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nation that enjoys humor, the U.S. gets mighty little in its fiction, and things are apt to get worse before they get better. That is enough to make book news of the latest volume by Robert Lewis Taylor, a profile writer for The New Yorker and, most recently, a biographer of W. C. Fields and Winston Churchill. The Bright Sands offers a good share of laughs, plus a steady run of chuckles and a warm feeling for the human race...
...tell you that a lion's share of Rex Morgan's success [TIME, Jan. 25] is due to the contribution of my two artist associates, Marvin Bradley and Frank Edgington . . . Years ago comic strips were written and drawn by one man. The modern fiction strips, like Rex Morgan, M.D., are a collaboration between artists and writers...
...most of his Southern contemporaries into pure bathos. An attractive, selfish woman gradually breaks down a man's spirit by refusing her love. Her teen-age nephew tells the story, and because he admires Captain Traill, the tragedy seems all the deeper. Unlike most sensitive boys of Southern fiction, young Joshua understands enough of an adult situation, but not so much that the tale appears incredible. At the start of his career, Author Miller already knows that what is left out is sometimes what makes the story effective...
...Items like fishing trawlers, and industrial and railroad equipment were listed to show that the exchange would not help the Soviet war effort. But importance of these goods for war production seems beyond dispute. And in a larger sense, the "non-strategic trade" idea itself is just a convenient fiction. Every fishing trawler Britons make for Russia releases Communist manpower for other, deadlier tasks. And on the other side of the coin, every product the West denies Russia means an added strain on the Soviet economy. The past year has shown that internal economic crises may result in a softening...
...University and similar to the remedial course offered by the Department of Mathematics. Such a course would count for credit, but unlike English C, it would not count towards concentration in English. Detailed attention could be given the elementary problems of clear expression, with no emphasis on fiction or other creative forms. In addition to frequent papers assigned by the instructor, the student could hand in papers written for other courses of this type were established, instructors in English C would have more time to spend with the more talented writers, and those students who lack ability would...