Word: fictioners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Turning from the issue's highly satisfactory fiction, we find that its most important preoccupations with the problem of the academician's function. Paul Goodman's article, "The Freedom to Be Academic," is an interesting if somewhat briefly presented reaction to the problem of anxiety in university faculties. Using two recent books on the academic freedom issue as a starting point, Goodman argues for the greater commitment of both teacher and student in the academic relationship. His insistence on the need of dedication to propositions is echoed by the editors of i.e. in their editorial, "The Place of Opposition...
...material in the present issue make it rather difficult to approaching a general way. The magazine is ostensibly dedicated to the memory of James Agee, and the excerpts from his unfinished and as yet unpublished novel, A Death in the Family, certainly make up the most distinguished body of fiction that the editors have yet presented. On the other hand, there is considerable emphasis on the works--fiction and essay--of the New York writer Paul Goodman, whose writing has appeared in previous issues...
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Encouragingly, however, the issue contains still more excellent fiction--selections again, from a novel in progress by James Reichley. The three sections, which appear here under the title "Shimonis," sketch quickly and incisively the character of a young, aggressive politician and the small Pennsylvania city in which he lives. Reichley's staccato prose is full of the broken rhythms of speech and laughter which fill the words with energy until they seem ready to burst from the page with excitement. Sometimes callous, sometimes raucous, always to the point, his style is very far from Agee...
...general approach to the fifth number of i.e. is hard to find. But this is feeble criticism. The outstanding quality of the fiction, the imaginative inclusion of the photographs, and the greatly clarified presentation of the magazine's developing point of view clearly make this the most successful issue to date. It is fair to point out that some justly object to the magazine's claim to be a Cambridge review, at least on the grounds of its sources. Still, its attempt to reflect a considered stand on the problems of the academic community seems to give it a vitality...