Word: intellectualoid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...homosexual themes in Huckleberry Finn and Moby Dick, has now carried his war against fiction behind the enemy's lines. Effectively disguised as a short-story writer, Fiedler turns out, in Pull Down Vanity, a collection of tales of the kind favored lately by modish literary quarterlies and intellectualoid slicks. They constitute the sort of kitsch fiction-as stylized as the whodunit or science fiction-in which every thought, character and experience is as nauseating as possible...
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