Word: fictioners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...leader-writers pay their respects to British phlegm amid emergency: "A recent incident at Penzance county court . . . is a reminder that man's mastery of the unexpected is not confined to the realm of fiction . . . The registrar approached the matter . . . in a discreet and unruffled manner. His question [to the witness], 'Are you smoking?' . . . paid due regard to the proprieties of the court . . . Having been answered in the negative there followed the conclusion delivered in unemotional monosyllables: 'Well, then, your head is on fire...
...Fearful Joy, by Joyce Gary. The life & times of Tabitha Baskett; a new novel by an Englishman who writes in the old meat-and-marrow tradition of English fiction (TIME...
American Guerrilla in the Philippines (20th Century-Fox) muffs a promising chance to do justice to an authentic saga of World War II. The movie was filmed in the Philippines, so that even a fictional treatment might have preserved a semi-documentary tang. Instead, taken either as fiction or reportage, the picture turns out to be as counterfeit and hackneyed as a comic-book adventure yarn, and not nearly so well paced...
These three facts must be denied and proved to be fiction before the statements of Professor Shapely in the Harvard CRIMSON, in which he denies having caused me any moral or material harm, and also previously in "Newsweek of July 3 (". . . Dr. Shapley last week denied heatedly that he conducted 'any campaigns against the book.' . . . 'I didn't make any threats and I don't know anyone who did.'") can be regarded as truthful statements. Immanuel Velikovsky
...repeat no, relation to the facts." Caught at their crystal-gazing, U.P.'s Sharma and others hastily reported that the Lama's "attempted flight" had been "prevented." But the Times of India did the neatest job of explaining: "A thick, almost impenetrable fog of rumor and fiction hangs over events transpiring on the Roof of the World...