Word: fictioners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fiction, The Age of Longing is as unsuccessful as any tract whose characters are drawn from an ideological casting bureau. As reporting, it is generally stimulating and occasionally brilliant. The gallery of French intellectuals is particularly well drawn, the futility of their bickering sharply exposed. And no one now writing can get inside the Communist mind with Koestler's sureness. Inside that mind are all the answers. Koestler no longer believes in those answers, but he remembers that when he did believe in them, he was happy. He hugs the cold comfort of democracy ("a half-truth...
...just what a cynic might arrive at if he tried to imagine how Hollywood would have made Britain's 1946 Brief Encounter. Like the British picture, September Affair tells a wistfully ro mantic story of a couple thrown together into what readers of women's-magazine fiction know as a love that can never...
...these Tales of the Uncanny and Supernatural by Algernon Blackwood-he made the old boy right at home. U.S. readers might profitably do as much for the author of the stories. Algernon Blackwood doesn't write much these days, but 30 years ago he was one of fiction's most famous commuters to the Great Beyond...
Operation Disaster (J. Arthur Rank; Universal-International), like all submarine fiction, operates under a handicap. Jules Verne worked out most of the possibilities, and what he overlooked has been overworked since his time. Of all the variations, the plight of crewmen trapped 15 fathoms deep is probably the hardiest, and gets sensitive treatment in this British movie...
...attempt to abandon a stereotyped "artiness," printed a flurry of expository articles like "The Jew at Harvard." The articles were interesting, but they ducked the problem. Instead of improving its content, the magazine simply changed it. The latest Advocate takes on a bigger job; it sticks largely to fiction, which means that content alone cannot put it over. This is a much more limited and therefore a much more difficult job. The new Advocate does it well...