Word: orals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Oral history has long been recognized as a legitimate and fertile form. But what about oral biography? Well, when it concerns Norman Mailer, the enduring enfant terrible, perpetual showman, seigneurial collector of wives and children, and protean writer, it amounts to a genre all by itself. Journalist Peter Manso sets out the lengthy musings of friends and enemies, editors and critics--almost anyone who has anything significant to say and some who do not--including Mailer's overprotective mother ("Running for mayor (of New York) was a mistake, and I told him, 'You don't understand all the spiteful things...
...missing defendants, Oral Celik, a 26-year-old Turk, presents the greatest mystery. In Martella's 1,243-page indictment, Celik stands accused not only of having helped orchestrate the purported plot but of actually firing, as Agca did, at the Pope. Celik, the indictment says, escaped from St. Peter's Square in the confusion that followed the assassination attempt and has eluded authorities since...
Hennie is the pseudonym of an outspoken Anglican priest in Wyndal, a pseudonymous white settlement in a lush, isolated valley north of Cape Town. His audience is Vincent Crapanzano, an anthropologist at New York City's Queens College, who assembles in Waiting an oral biography of South Africa's white community, the 16% minority that rules a nation at once divided and single-minded. Over the course of the book, Van der Merwe and more than 30 other Wyndal residents vent their passions, explain their prejudices and in effect deliver their own eulogies. "We lack (tribal ritual) so terribly...
...Oral Roberts vs. Wichita...
...some cases were to be reargued while others were not remains a mystery, but one result was clear: much court work was done to little purpose. And there may be more such outcomes; Powell has missed oral arguments in 56 cases. His health and the eight non-results last week highlight anew the court's age. In the event of a vacancy, the Reagan Administration is ready with an updated list of prospective Justices. White House Counsel Fred Fielding told TIME last week that he has also constituted a small new committee to advise the President on Supreme Court nominations...