Word: documentarian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Snow is attracting more and more attention in the U.S., and his latest novel-No. 8 in the projected cycle-is a June Book-of-the-Month. Even his fans admit that he is a pedestrian writer, a precise but prosaic documentarian. What makes Snow fascinating to many readers is his subject-the infighting that goes on along "the corridors of power," and the sort of cold, uncivil war that rages between what Snow labels the Two Cultures-traditional and scientific...