Word: fictioners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...explained that the film would merely try to win friends by tracing the union's history and presenting its problems. True, he admitted, two carloads of Negroes had been imported to play in mob sequences, and there would be strike scenes. But, Jencks said, the picture is mostly fiction and would even have some love interest. "If Hollywood tries to blacklist some of its finest workers," he added, "that is Hollywood's loss, but if these workers help us ... that is our gain . . . The union has just as much right to make a movie...
...course, if your reviewer means to deny that Mr. Morrison is an artist--to deny, that is, that he has created a fictional world in his novel--that is another matter. To make such a denial stick would require some evidence and some argument, neither of which is offered. Your reviewer concludes patronizingly: "before he writes another novel, Mr. Morrison should get to know his students a lot better." Would it be unkind to suggest that before he writes another review of a novel, your reviewer should get to know a lot more about how to read fiction...
...Magnetic Monster (Ivan Tors; United Artists). The monster in this crackling mixture of science and fiction is a newly discovered radioactive element that grows so fast and has such a powerful magnetic field that it threatens to destroy the earth. In the nick of time, the substance is destroyed by being fed an outsize dose of electric power...
...rung or so below the problem novel on fiction's ladder stands the predicament novel. This type of fiction might also be called soup opera, since the hero or heroine usually gets in the soup in the first chapter and doesn't get out till the last. Soup-opera books have a further important characteristic: after modest-sized editions in hard covers, they go quickly into huge editions in paperback-and become the reading of millions. The Birds and the Bees by James Aswell is a typical sample of the species...
...accolade (and the jacket reminder that Phillips is really Marquand Jr.), the book might have been noted only as a mildly wry comedy of bad manners that borrows much of its tone from F. Scott Fitzgerald and most of its technique from that smooth architect of fiction, Pulitzer Prizewinner John P. (for Phillips) Marquand...