Word: fictioners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What is the secret of the Communists' success at wringing confessions from their victims? Writes Oatis: "Sometimes it was the overwhelming pressure of fatigue. Sometimes it was the compulsion of an undeniable fact, sometimes the ambiguity of a deceptive fiction. But most of all it was my knowledge of their power and my helplessness, and my conviction that to confess, and to confess what they wanted me to confess, was my only way out. It was not a way out. of course. There wasn't any. But I didn't know that until the judge said...
...Kipling's "color" and energies enough to make him "our greatest [short] story writer"? Maugham admits that "the short story is not a form of fiction in which the English have on the whole excelled"-which is a way of saying that Kipling has not had much competition. But Maugham adds loyally, "I can't believe he will ever be equalled. I am sure he can never be excelled...
...While I lived in the United States I was a science-fiction addict myself," confessed Hungarian Author Arthur (Darkness at Noon) Koestler in Harper's Bazaar, "and I am still liable to occasional relapses." But the American mania for "reading about space travel, time travel, martian maidens and extragalactic supermen is habit-forming, like opium, murder thrillers and yoghurt diets ... [A kind of] apocalyptic intuition [that] the human race may be a biological misfit doomed to extinction . . . may be one of the reasons for the sudden interest in life on other stars...
Torment is no longer than the average lending-library time killer, but it gets more said about the human condition than many a contemporary novelist gives forth in his entire output. For Author Pérez Galdós is bold enough to use the fine old materials of fiction as if he had just discovered them: love and lust, generosity and greed, envy and charity, understanding and pettiness. Poor Amparo is no figure in a Spanish soap opera; she is the universal woman who has sinned, under pressure of her own generosity and momentary passion, and is willing...
...career began at Oxford with a book of verse, but he made his name as a walker. He tramped across the Alps from Lorraine to Rome, and his exuberant, youthful Path to Rome is a little classic of exhibitionist travel. For the next half-century, essays, history, epigrams, satires, fiction poured from his pen, sometimes at the rate of five volumes a year...