Word: fictioners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Britain is a puzzle. The Princess bows to the Archbishop-but the churches are empty, and religion is in evident decline. Britain is the U.S.'s strongest ally against Communism-and yet many Britons still look on the Communist conspiracy as if it were largely a fiction of American "hysteria." Britain continues to embody the kind and courageous middle-class virtues -and yet a social landslide has brought to some a nagging despair, to others a kind of fatigued boredom...
...boat from Southampton to St. Malo, France, and disappeared in the direction of the Iron Curtain. Last fall Her Majesty's Stationery Office issued the official story of their defection (TIME, Oct. 3). The report's half-truth was accepted as a polite fiction. Now Novelist Richard Llewellyn (How Green Was My Valley) seems to offer some fiction as the impolite truth...
...lacked the evidence to make arrests until Specs O'Keefe "sang" about his ten accomplices (TIME, Jan. 23). But Dinneen, who had been beating his competitors regularly on the story, also beat the police. He told the story vividly -and hedged against libel-by disguising it thinly as fiction, first in a Collier's piece, then in his book...
Brace, who is a full professor at Boston University, is the author of The Garretson Chronicles, and other novels. Hawkes has written The Cannibal and five other experimental works of full length fiction...
...advanced courses are English Fb, which will be given by Edwin Honig, Briggs-Copeland Assistant Professor of English Composition, and concern short fiction and poetry; English Xb, to be given in two sections, by Gerald W. Brace, visiting professor of English and Monroe Engel, assistant professor of English, and concerning long fiction or personal narrative; and English Yb, playwrighting, to be given by Robert H. Chapman, assistant professor of English...