Word: fictioners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Science-Fiction...
Millikan turned from the facts and figures to muse for a while about "science-fiction" type solutions for the problems...
...Kennebunkport, Me. Born in Maine, where his ancestors (arriving in 1639) worked and warred for several generations, Roberts had already gained international repute as a good reporter (on the Boston Post, 1909-17, the Saturday Evening Post, 1919-37) when he switched to full-time writing of historical fiction, ingeniously and accurately ("I think that most historians . . . should have stuck to farming") tracked down his background for realistic, robust tales of the French and Indian wars (1754-60) and the Revolutionary...
...White Suit (at Loew's Strand Theatre in Back Bay through tonight). The semi-science-fiction classic from the Alec Guinness canon of comedy...
...acting is not to be found in Hamlet's oft-cited directions to the Players (Act iii, 2), but rather in Hamlet's 'O what a rogue and peasant slave' soliloquy (Act ii, 2), especially the lines, "Is it not monstrous that this player here,/ But in a fiction, in a dream of passion,/ Could force so his soul to his own conceit/ That from her working all his visage wann'd,/ Tears in his eyes, distraction in 's aspect,/ A broken voice, and his whole function suiting/ With forms to his conceit...