Word: croaking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...blinked, swallowed, croak-ily joked about hay fever. The tears would not stop leaking through...
Scriptwriter, Mario Vargas Llosa Famous Last Words, Timothy Findley ∙ The Frog Who Dared to Croak, Richard Sennett ∙Mantissa, John Fowles∙ Someone Else's Money, Michael M. Thomas ∙The Woods, David Plante
...various possible meanings of that story are the essence of an odd but ingratiating "documentary" novel called The Frog Who Dared to Croak (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 182 pages; $11.95). The author, as odd and ingratiating as his book, is Richard Sennett, 39, better known as an omnivorously brilliant professor of sociology at New York University. Sennett's hero, Tiber Grau, finds the folktale version of the frog story "pessimistic" and "not entirely clear." Grau is at this point a propaganda official in the short-lived Hungarian revolutionary regime of 1919, so he has the authority to rewrite the nation...
...Olympics. During the Hungarian revolt of 1956, finally, Grau becomes one of six Hungarians designated to negotiate with the Soviets, and instead of appealing for freedom, he argues that Hungary, like the frog, is too small and weak either to fight or to be independent. For this futile croak, the aged survivor is expelled from the Communist Party. "Yet, miraculously, I am still alive and well," says the last of his posthumous papers...
...orchestras. It still terrifies me, but I'm going to force myself to do it. Because I think it's one of the nice things about middle age that you know that even if it's a disaster, you don't have to kill yourself." Croak...