Word: fictioners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nabokov, who will teach Humanities 3 this term, continued. "The news article itself is also fiction, not fact. One type of fiction has been created by a reporter, and the other type has been created by Melville...
Nabokov said that it was always dangerous to try and relate real life and real faces to fiction, and that there was no connection with a real white whale and the one in the novel...
Parts of the article read like something out of the pages of science fiction. Not only is the secrecy fantastic, but the whole crazy business is fantastic, and I can't bring myself to believe that such monstrous things are really going on. The next logical question would be "Why?"-and I don't think anybody could adequately answer that. The old standby, that it's for a bigger and more secure world, doesn't sound convincing any more ... It has become somewhat of a god: Hail, all hail to Baal, Baal, the Hydrogen Bomb...
...first two years, he hardly laid eyes on Ross. But Ross had his eye on Shawn. He made him head of the "idea" department, which suggested many of the magazine's articles and cartoons, four years later boosted him to "managing editor for fact," i.e., everything but fiction and cartoons. Only once, in 1936, did Shawn write a piece for the magazine, a wry fantasy called "Catastrophe," in which New York City was completely destroyed by a meteor and quickly forgotten by everyone...
...much she had to do with it. She has also crossed the color line, bearing a full quota of sympathy for Clara. Author Coleman has told his story with a simplicity that only occasionally slips into naiveté. Clara is no major work of fiction, but it is an honest book on a ticklish subject, and it has the virtue of being about ordinary people, well understood...