Word: fictioners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...meant to give the lie to the slick-formula-fiction illusion of the American way of life. But where he went wrong was in turning the formula upside-down and coming out with something that approaches reality about as closely as a Saturday Evening Post story and that penetrates the despair of the human condition to depths no greater than the heights of elation to which boy and girl are moved in S. E. P.'s happy ending...
...direction of Fred Zinneman comes up to his high mark in The Search and The Men. He neither patronizes his Italian civilians, typecasts his G.I.s nor falsifies his combat scenes, which prove as taut as any fiction footage yet shot about World War II. But the picture gets into trouble after it gets back to the U.S. The hero's psychological troubles and diagnosis fall as patly into place as in a clinical report. When the script attempts to show him growing up emotionally in time for a hopeful ending, the change is so drastically telescoped and hastily motivated...
...Dubuque was taking sides last week, either with the good ladies in church clubs or the lusty wenches of fiction...
...plot is little more than a loosely-connected series of incidents. Truth may well be stranger than fiction, but, as "Odette" demonstrates, in the theatre it often appears less convincing...
...publication, as yet unnamed, will use mostly fiction articles. Being privately financed, it will contain no advertisements. Contributors need not be undergraduates, Phillips said...