Word: loree
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...literate Anglophiles who savored The Lord of the Rings much as they do Grahame's The Wind in the Willows or T.H. White's The Sword in the Stone, to hundreds of thousands of U.S. college kids who made Frodo a national figure and turned the lore of Middle-earth into a way of life. In 1966, the first paperback edition of the three volumes of the Ring sold close to 500,000 copies in the U.S. Scholars and critics had at first admired his books, while tracing down literary influences that ranged from Buchan (the chases...
...Watergate hearings have add ed a little to the rich historical lore of Lafayette Square, the graceful public park across the street from the White House. John Dean and Herbert Kalmbach, the President's personal counsel and lawyer respectively, strolled there in July 1972 to discuss hush money for the Watergate defendants...
Donoso has a lethally accurate ear for the cadences of Chilean people: aging, pious servants, provincials transplanted in the capital, the crumbling aristocracy. The elusive Iné is a perfect portrait of a working-class Santiago teenager. Along with legends and local lore, there is a great deal of fashionable literary rhetoric that unfortunately tends to make the author's truly bizarre creations more commonplace. When the didact in Donoso pushes the storyteller aside, the book comes perilously close to pomposity...
...year agreement between Harvard and the Commissioners of Massachusetts may sound like a bit of academic lore, but this "obligation"--which would provide Indian students with financial aid--is giving the University attorneys a legal headache...
...mind on its own territory proved a difficult task for the trio of veteran TIME correspondents who reported the bulk of material for this week's cover story on Libyan Strongman Muammar Gaddafi and the complex politics of the Arab world. Fortunately, all three are experienced in the lore and ways of the Middle East...