Word: fictioners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From the time they seized power 40 years ago, said Kennan, Russia's Communist bosses have used falsehoods as a deliberate weapon of policy. Four decades of cynical intellectual opportunism "have wrought a strange corruption of the Communist mind, rendering it incapable of distinguishing sharply between fact and fiction in its relationship to any external competitive power." Habitual abuse of truth has blurred in the minds of Communist leaders the distinction between what they really believe and what they find it expedient...
...World War II, went to the University of Illinois at Urbana and carried on ultrasound work with funds from the Office of Naval Research. In the early postwar years most ultrasound generators produced only a crude, unfocused beam. Fry built a two-story laboratory with equipment reminiscent of science-fiction illustrations, gradually refined his complex apparatus so that he could focus powerful ultrasound beams from four separate irradiators onto a target about the size of a pinhead...
Julian Seymour Schwinger, 39, son of a Manhattan dress manufacturer, became a full professor of physics at Harvard when he was 29, is now rated, with Richard Phillips Feynman (see above), as among the top theoreticians in the U.S. Science-fiction pulp magazines infected him with the science bug. "I soon discovered," he explains, "that it was scientific fact that I was interested in, and not fiction." He won a fellowship at Columbia, took his Ph.D. there at 21. In 1951 he won the Albert Einstein Award for achievement in the natural sciences for his work on the interaction...
This investigation is particularly a propos in the light of the current cinema, which keeps demanding more and more material and naturally had taken to converting fiction. The Production Code Board estimates that something over 50 percent of the movies which they examined in 1955 were adapted from novels. Moreover, of the top ten all-time money-making films, five were adaptations. The record of critical successes is comparable...
...South Russia, Taras Tarasovich Popugaev, "a bread-salter" (i.e., great party-giver), known to friends in true tycoon style as T.T. Thus Vladimir B. Grinioff, 45, a Russian-born U.S. expert on Russian affairs, presents one of the most grotesque and ingratiating figures of this year's fiction...