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...Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S. Truman, Miller...
David E. Bynum '58, lecturer on Oral Literature...
...were children's entertainment while, in reality, they were meant to be read at upper class Parisian salons. The Christian Church condemned such threatening flirtations with the occult, and this disguise provided a strategic alibi. Perrault's printed stories spread a new form of popular literature, long confined by oral tradition; until his time, printed literature usually included only Scripture and classical works. But readers treated fairy tales apologetically, so when the novel emerged a century later--and Science began to dictate reality--fantasy was forced slightly underground again...
...Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S. Truman, Miller...
...reading period again. And nobody in his right mind is going to charge over to a Newbury Street gallery with three papers, an oral report and five exams staring him in the face. But Harvard, in its benevolent wisdom, has organized enough that's interesting on this side of the River to hold us until June...