Word: fictioners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...best of the month's fiction is the work of a graduate Junior Fellow Geoffrey Bush. His "A Great Reckoning in a Little Room" combines, to considerable dramatic affect, imagined selections from Christopher Marlowe's diary and letters. Bush has caught the spirit of two men one an iconoclast and a great author, the other a conformist and his betrayer...
...flimsy," said Moon, "and could easily be answered. Dakin just said that firing me would take the pressure off Collier's." If he was being fired for that reason only, Moon wanted a letter saying so. Wrote Dakin: "We have been eminently satisfied with your work in the fiction department." Moon insists that he has never been a Communist, that his name was not authorized for use in the Waldorf culture conference, and that he dropped out of the National Council about five years...
...Collier's fiction staff promptly protested to Dakin in a memo: "We are all distressed that this could happen on a magazine that once had a reputation for independent judgment . . . The magazine has, in bowing so spiritlessly to pressure, publicly 'admitted' its 'guilt' and injured the reputation of a man who has been given no chance to prove his innocence." Said Bucklin Moon: "All I can do is, through a great deal of personal work and some money, try to get myself officially cleared. I'm not trying to be a martyr. But this...
Though glossily put together and smoothly acted (particularly by Clifton Webb as a tart-tongued socialite), these melodramatic vignettes are merely a ripple on the picture's main theme: the sinking of an ocean liner. Unfortunately, too much time is spent on contrived fiction, too little on dramatic fact...
Zorbo the Greek, by Nikos Kazantzakis. A man of action confronts life with one of the most affirmative philosophies in recent fiction; a modern Greek masterpiece by last year's runner-up for the Nobel Prize (TIME. April...