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[Jonathan Lighter]

No. It describes the contents of Chamberlain's book.

It doesn't cover _Pacem in Terris_ either.

JL

On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 9:45 AM, Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Is it possible the reference to 'combat stories' is meant to start a new
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> On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 9:36 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> It may be a stretch, but here is a 1965 use of "novel" which
>> functionally, if perhaps inadvertently, includes a collection of short
>> stories and nonfiction works as well. The first four titles are
>> fiction. The rest aren't. There is no transition between categories:
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>> 1965 _L.A. Times_ (Oct. 24) B30 [ProQuest]: [Headline] Bombarded With
>> War Novels. ...If you enjoy novels about the war, there are a number
>> of new titles available: THE TRAITOR by William L. Shirer...THE BIG
>> WAR by Anton Myrer...UP FROM THE BEACH by George Barr...HELLBENT FOR
>> GLORY by William Chamberlain...Combat stories of World War II and
>> Korea...THE FRIENDLY DEAD by T. Grady Gallant...An excellent account
>> of the Marines at Iwo Jima...THE TIRPITZ AND THE BATTLE FOR THE NORTH
>> ATLANTIC by David Woodward...PACEM IN TERRIS... [by] Pope John XXIII.
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>> The headline writer might easily have written "book" over "novel" and
>> even saved a space in doing so.
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>> This is the sort of case that might easily be dismissed as some sort
>> of careless error, and perhaps that's all that it is, but on such
>> errors semantic change often depends.
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>> JL
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