Word: fictioners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...these years, made an effort to meet you ... I think I have avoided you out of a kind of fear of finding my own double [Doppelgänger Furcht] . . . When I read one of your beautiful works I seem to encounter again and again, behind the poetic fiction, the very presumptions, interests and conclusions so well known to me from my own thoughts . . . Your ability to be deeply moved by the truths of the unconscious, the recurrence of your thoughts to the polarity of love and death-all of this had for me an uncanny familiarity . . . Forgive me for straying...
...became necessary to resist in a seemingly lost cause. On the frostbitten ridges of Korea, it became necessary to carry a stalemate to its logical inconclusion. In these tragic endurance contests, new kinds of American courage were bred, and that courage is celebrated in these two remarkable, non-fiction accounts by first-time authors. Give Us This Day, by Army Private Stewart, is the more powerful and moving. The Last Parallel, by Marine Sergeant Russ, is more cocky and exuberant; neither is for the reader who is queasy of mind or stomach...
...Fang (Nervous Norvus; Dot). One of those tough patter songs with a science-fiction twist: this cat was born on Mars and he's laying the other planets low. He wears "real nervous pegs with a crazy crease," and he's gonna "hit these chicks with a Martian jolt." Good for a spin...
...begun to pay off in growth if not yet in increased profits. Sales in McCall's pattern division rose 15% in 1956. McCall's circulation increased 242,000 to 4,756,839, along with a 5% rise in ads. Redbook, which earlier switched its appeal from fiction to articles for young homemakers, boosted its circulation 114,000 to 2,286,500 in 1956, picked up another...
...pursuit that "the woman in white," Caroline Graves, was his mistress throughout his life. Nobody knows if the story she told him-that she was fleeing from a brutal hypnotist who kept her imprisoned in his villa-is true or not, but many still know the great piece of fiction that Wilkie Collins made of it. The Woman in White ran in 1859-60 as a serial in Charles Dickens' magazine, All the Year Round, and though it followed Dickens' own Tale of Two Cities, it boosted circulation above even the Dickens level. Serialized...