Word: fictionalize
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...hope and a plan, Algérie Française was dead. The European extremists, whose mob violence overthrew the Fourth Republic, had proved paper tigers. And in the face of the mass Moslem hostility displayed last week, not even the most misguided colon could continue the fiction that the silent Moslems (who are nine-tenths of the population) secretly longed to become Frenchmen and make Algeria an integral part of France...
...government grew, great, boxlike buildings have risen to house the Parliament and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The Defense Ministry is starting to build an eleven-story headquarters on the outskirts, so massive that German newspapers call it "the Pentabonn." But even here the provisional fiction was preserved -all new buildings were so designed that they could be converted to other uses, e.g., the Bundestag building is to be turned into a teachers' college, the Defense Ministry into a hospital...
Hans loses out, of course, but not until Ustinov has worked some of the most quixotic flimflam in recent fiction. Characters deliver speeches that are fluent and often funny but almost never credible. What The Loser leaves behind is a sense of regret that so many nice touches have been wasted, so much comic flair dissipated in a search for what is obviously a serious statement about war, its terrors and follies...
...dust jacket of this 100-year-old novel proclaims it to be "undoubtedly the greatest masterpiece of fiction by a Swiss writer," which is a little like referring ecstatically to the tallest building in Newark, N.J. In the period in which Gottfried Keller was busy being the greatest Swiss novelist (Der Grüne Heinrich was published in 1854), Tolstoy wrote War and Peace, Melville wrote Moby Dick, and Emily Brontë wrote Wuthering Heights. Still, Keller's book, in its first English translation, has enough literary and historical value to make it worth reading. The novel lacks...
After Burdick had joined him for the completion of final details on the original Ugly American, "We both realized, at exactly the same time, that readers instinctively believe fiction more than non-fiction...