Word: fictioners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Human Bondage, by W. Somerset Maugham (Aug. 1, 1915): ". . . One of those novels which deserve and should receive the attention of all those who care for what is worthwhile in contemporary fiction...
...Earth Stood Still. Science-fiction, combining a glimpse of futuristic marvels with a thoughtful look at the seedy old earth of 1951; with Michael Rennie (TIME...
...Pictures The Day the Earth Stood Still (20th Century-Fox), by far the best of Hollywood's recent flights into science-fiction, combines a glimpse into the futuristic marvels of outer space with a thoughtful look at the seedy old earth of 1951. Like The Thing (TIME, May 14), it is the story of a visitor from another planet. But Klaatu (Michael Rennie) is no villainous monster; he is an ultra-civilized human being who makes the earthmen, by contrast, look like a monstrous race of Yahoos...
Probably the best of the longer prose works is Douglas Bunce's tale of Joseph Catchpenny, who picked his wives according to the rigid rules of romantic fiction. Bunce strikes a nice balance between slapstick and satire to keep his story amusing to the end. "Mrs. Fabian's Little Joke," by Michael Arlen, applies a ridiculous ending to an inane plot, and remains humorous in spite of it all. But a short piece on "Answers to the World's Most Famous Letters" falls down badly at the end. The purposely uninformed commentaries by Thomas Edwards, on quantum mechanics and chess...
Joseph Augustus Winter is an M.D. who got into dianetics in its early, science-fiction days. Physician Winter, a Manhattan psychosomaticist, was impressed by Hubbard's theory that the mind can register impressions ("engrams") even during unconsciousness. And he was soon convinced that the dianetics technique of relieving emotional upsets by reliving them before another dianetics devotee ("auditing") was an improvement on psychoanalysis. An auditing session, says Dr. Winter, cured his six-year-old son of a fear of the dark and ghosts. Winter also credits his son with "remembering," thanks to dianetics, the process of his birth...