Word: fictioners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Arthur Rank has turned out a restrained cops and robbers movie, called "The Blue Lamp." He tries to make his murder-mystery unusual by adding some authentic shots of Scotland Yard at work. But the result is a poor blend of half documentary and half fiction; neither half is very good...
...Quixote, Cervantes, 68, and suffering from dropsy, died, taking with him to his grave all but the bare outline of his life. Short of biographical details, Biographer MacEóin has resorted to sifting the collected writings in an effort to separate Cervantes' own experience from the fiction with which he embroidered it. The result, while rich in surmise, is a little thin as biography. After reading Cervantes, those who would like to know its subject better are likely to find themselves right back where they startedstaring into the sad, heroic face of the mad knight...
They tell a story around Miami about the football player who once tried to escape from the area. He was, the reports say, stopped before he could reach the border. This is probably a fiction, but it illustrates by ridiculous example the workings of the school's active supporters. Alumni activities were not covered by the Sanity Code...
...really doesn't make any difference whether the page number is right--the grader certainly won't look it up. As a matter of fact, it is often wise to pick a couple of one line quotes out of books and memorize them--it adds authenticity to your fiction...
...time when U.S. literary pickings are pretty thin, a steady trickle of good fiction keeps coming from Britain. With some notable exceptions, e.g., Graham Greene's theological thrillers and Joyce Gary's lusty picaresques, much of the British work seems remarkably alike in its strengths and weaknesses. Typically, it deals with delicate crises in the lives of ordinary folk, it rocks along with a suggestion of kindly irony, and it is written with a high polish that U.S. writers never achieve. But it also seems determinedly unambitious, self-consciously shy of mystery or passion...