Word: fictioners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This post has since 1742 been "Bailiff or Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds" - a job originally established to protect the Chiltern Hills from bandits, and which once carried the nominal salary of ?i a year. The salary, like the bailiff's duties, has long since receded into traditional fiction. Eden also turned down "for the present" the Queen's prompt offer of an earldom - the customary reward for retiring Prime Ministers. *Last year Macmillan visited his mother's home town, peered through the window of the house where she had lived, gallantly tried eating fried chicken with...
...Against Oliver Smith's fine woodland set-a sort of field-and-stream of consciousness-the self-probing yielded moments both of sharp fantasy and of sharp perception. But an ultra-subjective method, which by now is a commonplace of fiction, has no proper place in drama. It is not just that drama works from the outside in, rather than vice versa, but that such mental voyaging, in the theater, is seldom sly, swift and aberrant enough to seem real, nor cumulative enough to be dramatic...
...Mixed Fiction FOR EVERY FAVOUR, by Ruby Ferguson (320 pp.; Little, Brown; $3.95), is a report on that lost time when the grapes were always plump in the hothouse and no butler ever stole a spoon. Instead of telling the gloom of aristocrats obliged to do without servants, English Novelist Ruby Ferguson, 57, resourcefully chronicles the even gloomier situation of servants who have run out of aristocrats. Her story about the decline, fall and resurrection of Edward Shrewsbury, the perfect butler, is calculated to make envious many a lady novelist who has never thought of using butlers for any purpose...
Such science fiction is not based wholly on imagination. If Captain Dart gets to the Whirlpool Galaxy while he is still young enough to make a safe blast-down on some hospitable planet, he will thank, in part, Albert Einstein and the theory of relativity...
...true story, Balestrero's ordeal had drama, heart tugs, near tragedy, even, with his wife better, an upbeat ending. As fiction, with Henry Fonda playing Balestrero, the drama, heart tugs and near tragedy have been dissipated. Director Alfred Hitchcock, in a change of pace from his usual suspense formula, seems to have been so impressed with having a true story to tell that he gave it a completely literal rendering. Turning the story into fiction without fictionalizing, he stripped it of its emotional impact; by sticking to the facts, he missed the truth...