Word: recounting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reproduce the everyday speech of office workers on a New York subway platform, then abruptly shifts to a long, narrative story-within-a-story, a form with which Helprin is more comfortable. Yet, Helprin is also experimenting with pure narrative as a form: it presents the opportunity to recount a series of events chronologically, in the tradition of the storyteller, adding a dimension of distance and wonder to the small occurrences of a routine and mechanized world. In some of these stories he succeeds admirably, notably in "Willis Avenue," the memory of an unfulfilled love in a typewriter-ribbon factory...
...made his way by following the old maxim that the best way for a reporter to look upon a politician is, as a misanthropic editor once said, "down." "I do have a bias in writing about politicians," Reeves admits. "I don't feel any great obligation to recount their many and varied personal and professional virtues. That is what they, or the taxpayers, are paying for in the salaries and fees of press secretaries, media advisers and advertising agencies." He picked up his fond contempt for politicos from the fetid municipal air of Jersey City, where he grew...
Ignoring pleas from his supporters for a recount, State Senator Joseph F. Timilty late last night conceded defeat in the Boston mayoral election...
Read as it may, the ruling suited coach Bill McCurdy and his team just fine. The recount read 17-20 for Harvard, and the Crimson had won its second consecutive meet of the season...
Maury Allen doesn't get any deeper than a surface recount of DiMaggio's career. He describes the 1941 batting streak in vivid and exciting detail, offers some insight into DiMaggio's longstanding feud with the late Casey Stengel, and shares a few until now unreported tidbits about Marilyn Monroe and Joe. But mostly he allows old ex-Yankees to do the talking and many of them, particularly Lefty Gomez whose monologue goes on for pages, have a propensity for talking more about themselves than about DiMaggio...