Word: fictionize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...find a nonmagnetic and noncorroding material for tools that could be safely used in dismantling magnetic mines, he finally hit upon 55-Nitinol, a nickel-titanium alloy. During further experiments, however, he discovered that the alloy also had a strange and mysterious quality in the realm of science fiction: It had a "memory...
Mystical Dream. Crane was also a serious writer whose only compulsion was to portray life honestly. At his best, he wrote a bold, uncluttered, staccato prose that, like the young Hemingway's, eventually changed both the rhythm and content of American fiction. At the core of that achievement was The Red Badge of Courage, that wholly intuitive, almost mystical dream of war dredged up from his subconscious when he was only...
...FICTION 1. Airport, Hailey (1 last week...
Dreamed up by L. Ron Hubbard, a onetime science-fiction writer, Scientology originally surfaced as "Dianetics," a pseudopsychological fad that flourished briefly in America in the early 1950s. Dianetics purported to be a quick way to mental health that could clear the mind of "engrams," the mental quirks that, Hubbard alleged, were the cause of all psychic problems...
Pearson explains that the book is "more fact than fiction." That is just as well, since Pearson's fiction is pretty lifeless, even ranked with the this-is-how-it-really-is political novel. Pearson has the advantage when it comes to describing the intricacies of congressional maneuver. Still, none of the acts of avarice or ambition in the novel are half so convincing-or so appalling-as the real-life instances set forth in The Case Against Congress...