Word: fictioners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...like Dickens, Thackeray and other contemporary 19th Century literary figures, was also a working journalist. He founded Time in 1879. It was by no means a news magazine, nor was it departmentalized like our TIME, but it did print many articles on current affairs, along with poetry, serialized fiction and short stories. In its first six issues, for example, Time carried articles on the doings of Parliament, the state of the nation's defenses, profiles on Disraeli and George Sala, one of the first roving correspondents. There was an article on Queen Victoria's Windsor apartments...
Ways of Love [Joseph Burstyn] applies the packaging technique of Quartet to a trio of short fiction films made separately at different times by three of Europe's top directors. Each story illustrates a different meaning of love: the kind that stirs the mating urge, the peasant's love of his land, the heights of religious passion. Each also serves to illustrate, with varying success, the characteristic styles of Italy's Roberto (Open City) Rossellini and France's Jean (Grand Illusion) Renoir and Marcel (The Baker's Wife) Pagnol. None of the films could conceivably...
Critics may know what readers should read, but it is the booksellers who are sure they know what readers want. Last December, glooming over low fiction sales, Retail Bookseller bluntly expressed a credo of the trade: "The truth is that the public really doesn't want books worth buying so much as books that everybody is talking about ... a book like Forever Amber, a book that the righteous and the literary will deplore...
...year's solid successes in the know-thyself field, The Mature Mind, picked up steam in 1950 and remained a bestseller all year. It gave way, finally, to Dianetics, a gelatinous porridge of poor man's psychoanalysis which was originally dished out, appropriately enough, in Astounding Science Fiction. Equally astounding, and to many critics equally fictitious, was Immanuel Velikovsky's pseudo-scientific Worlds in Collision, an explanation of mythological and Old Testament miracles that turned academic scientists from coast to coast purple with wrath. It made bestseller lists along with Gayelord Hauser's irresistible promise, Look...
...cost. Sheldon's In His Steps was stuffy in style, contrived in plot, and contained some of the most ludicrous dialogue ever written. But it went to the hearts of thousands. Within a few months it had sold more than 100,000 copies, has since become the alltime fiction bestseller (estimates as high as 30 million copies...