Word: orals
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...attempt in November 1981, there was already some uncertainty about whether two or three shots had been fired at the Pontiff. Confusion also surrounded a photograph, taken by a tourist immediately after the shooting, that shows a young man running from the square. That man, according to Martella, was Oral Celik, 25, Agca's closest friend, who guided him to his first political crimes, helped him escape from a Turkish jail in 1979 and drew him into the plot to kill the Pope...
Soooo--can they have ORAL...
Studs Terkel is the man who gave us our oral-history fixation...
Working (People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do) and Hard Times (An Oral History of the Great Depression) hooked a national audience with the transcribed experiences of hundreds of Americans. Some scholars dismissed these books as little more than jumped-up man-in-the-street interviews, strong on emotion and weak on critical framework. The public disagreed. Let the eggheads collect cut-glass generalizations from Tocqueville and Toynbee. Folks read Studs to find out what it was really like on the bread lines and assembly lines...
...words about editing. Terkel shapes his interviews into a uniform style: terse sentences that focus attention on what is said rather than how. One could quibble that this is not authentic oral history, but it works. Passion and pride not only survive intact, they are strengthened. Douglas MacArthur may have had it backward: old soldiers do die, but they do not fade away...