Word: writer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nuclear fission used to be a subject upon which a writer could simply crank up and let loose, but no longer . . . Space flight is still good for a yarn, but already one university offers a course in theoretical astrogation...
...pincers of technology squeeze inexorably upon the poor science-fiction writer...
...station of the underground within Russia. For six months after World War II, "Father George" traveled through the U.S.S.R. with Red army credentials, studying resistance to the Communist regime and especially the secret confederacy of Christians. What he found makes an exciting book, written in collaboration with magazine-writer Gretta Palmer and published this week as God's Underground (Appleton-Century-Crofts...
...spare. The picture begins as three young matrons in station-wagon suburbia learn that one of their husbands has run off with a feared and envied local charmer. Leaving the runaway husband's identity dangling (neither the wives nor the audience is in on the secret at first), Writer-Director Joseph L. Mankiewicz explores each wife's marital security in three long flashbacks. Then, with considerable skill and a sort of hard-bitten humor, he pulls off an ending that is adroit but fair, surprising but credible, and warm yet not sticky with sentiment...
...having passed on this bit of wisdom, the Chief Editorial Writer went back to sleep, pausing only to wonder if the Student Council Sub-Committee on Food would get to work nice and early next term. Possibly, he thought drowsily, and if it doesn't ...well, you can't go on quoting William James forever...