Word: fictioners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...That is why the players who had got their kicks out of riding the dumb catcher suddenly expose hidden reserves of tenderness and simple decency. There is one bad apple, and that is Katie, the beautiful prostitute with whom Catcher Bruce is in love. Unlike the cliche harlot of fiction, she is as short of compassion as Bruce is of IQ. Only when she learns that he is dying will she agree to marry him, and then only on condition that she become the beneficiary of Bruce's insurance policy. As the catcher's insurance agent as well...
...balanced at any time by an ignominious strikeout or a sad walk to the showers. As the theme of a novel, this carries its own banality if only because no decent reader would want to quarrel with it. What makes Bang the Drum Slowly unique in current fiction is Author Harris' mastery of his offbeat scene. His charr:ters all talk alike, and so the dialogue begins to sound monotonous, but basically the talk is natural, larded with casual humor, earthiness and more than a touch of locker-room obscenity. If the characters are no more than onedimensional...
Since World War II the French have agreed so warmly with this attitude that Caroline has become French fiction's most popular heroine. The novels in which she appears (The Secrets is the third to be published in the U.S.) have had sales of more than a million...
...than 80 books under 20 names, including a sober study entitled When France Occupied Europe (1792-1815). Consequently, when he makes Caroline an eyewitness to Napoleon's retreat from Moscow, he knows what that eyeful was. Every page of Secrets is dotted with the stock characters of romantic fiction-dashing lieutenants, gallant generals, evil-faced spies and slimy turncoats-but Saint-Laurent trots them out with verve, gives them real jobs to do. The most dignified historian might respect Saint-Laurent's dramatic, spine-freezing account of Boney's awful homeward trudge, which would teach most schoolboys...
Donald H. Menzel, director of the College Observatory, and Fred L. Whipple, professor of Astronomy, agreed yesterday that prospects for interplanetary travel are based on "fact rather than fiction," but they saw many obstacles in the way of journeys into space...