Word: fictioners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...zoologist brother Gerald (My Family and Other Animals-TIME, April 15). His novel, The Black Book, published in Paris in 1938, was hailed by T. S. Eliot as "the first piece of work by a new English writer to give me any hope for the future of prose fiction." Unfortunately, Justine's most effective moments are not those of the novelist but of the poet. The evocation of Alexandria in singing, interpolated paragraphs has more reality than the delineation of the principal characters. When the book is finished the people fade, but the riddles of existence and the cruelties...
Alfried Krupp is confident that the climate will change; he has already seen the extent to which the cold war has softened earlier attitudes against German industrial concentration. In many cases, deconcentration has been allowed to become only a paper fiction; e.g., Friedrich Flick's steel combine "sold" one steel mill to Flick's sons. Though Krupp keeps a close watch on his separated assets (Beitz sometimes calls the companies' managers in for reports), he has made no big move toward secret reconcentration. Alfried Krupp could legally sell his coal and steel holdings in Germany and invest...
Leonard reported that four thousand bluebooks (32 pages each,) have been purchased to contain this massive conglomeration of fact and fiction. Smaller (16 page) booklets will be supplied to the more prolific writers after the first bluebooks are filled, he added...
...another seminar on world citizenship, no passport: "I don't care if you are the Kaiser of China; just show me your papers." Davis offered to write himself out another passport. Muttered the judge, "This man is meschugga [addled]." At week's end Davis moodily read science-fiction while awaiting trial...
...dude reader will be wrong. Dorothy Johnson pays her respects to the strict conventions of western fiction (by now as stylized as a Flathead bluejay dance), but the best of these ten tales of a lost frontier echo Bret Harte or Mark Twain in the West. There is the sentimentality and pawky humor by which all oldtimers of all frontiers recall the brave days. Storyteller Johnson's memories are authentic; she grew up in Whitefish, Mont. with wide ears for tall tales. Her characters are primitive and romantic, as they probably were in life, and she has a surprising...