Word: fictioners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bartering stolen food for his emaciated comrades' wristwatches. Standard Nazis, snarling or whining as occasion demands, fill out the cast on the long road to another prison camp and, finally, to Allied victory. Maybe I'm Dead lacks the dramatic pinnacles of truly stirring war fiction. Yet it is impressive for its inexorable credibility, and its very sketchiness gives it the fascination of daily war communiques, tersely measuring ground gained against a scale of fallen...
...reported in to my boss, the desk, five or day." six Out days of a this week, at unflinching least six writing hours a stint came some of the U.S.'s most success ful fiction. Wouk's total output to date...
...woman is found in a home and children, cheering loud and long for the American middle class and blasting Bohemia and Bohemians. Wouk is a Sinclair Lewis in reverse. His chief significance is that he spearheads a mutiny against the literary stereotypes of rebellion-against three decades of U.S. fiction dominated by skeptical criticism, sexual emancipation, social protest and psychoanalytic sermonizing...
...strong bid for viewers' eyes, brings on The Mickey Mouse Club, a new companion piece to Disneyland, combining all the famed cartoon characters with live entertainment. Disneyland itself will be back with a new series about Davy Crockett and a science-fiction film called Man in Space. Wyatt Earp, billed as the first adult Western TV series, is aimed at achieving the quality of such films as High Noon and Shane. Warner Bros. Presents is an hour-long filmed show that will alternate adventure, romance and Western drama. M-G-M Parade will present shorts and film clips from...
...idiocies of anti-moralistic modernism. Especially in two phrases do you capture the crisis of ethics in modern art today in all mediums. First, when you speak of Goya's Disasters of War as handling "only villains and victims," for this is what modern editors precisely wish modern fiction and modern drama to delineate. Secondly and more important, when you add, "Goya was a moralist," for there you strike at the root of the trouble in the modern arts. Editors, museum directors, theater producers do not wish a modern creative artist to be a moralist-they fear to alienate...