Word: retold
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HEIRS OF CAIN, by Abraham Rothberg. The history of the Diaspora in this century brilliantly retold through the agony of an Israeli assassin, who is a kind of Jewish Everyman...
Issues of Veracity. In a marathon, ten-month proceeding, the tortured story of Krebiozen was told and retold. The Durovic brothers had made millions, the Government charged, and salted some away in Swiss banks. Dr. Ivy's savings were said to have jumped in eight years from a mere $16,983 to $222,153 (his wife had done well in Wall Street, explained Ivy). The defendants, the prosecution claimed, had encouraged patients to visit Chicago, then supplied them with Krebiozen to take to their home-town doctors-which was illegal in any case where the patient crossed a state...
Wild as the story may seem, it has survived the earnest attempts of a century of debunking historians, for the Princess Ayoubi is hardly the first to tell it. It has been told and retold in Limousin, where Mallet is as common a surname as is Johnson in Minnesota, since the middle of the 19th century. U.S. Consul Walter Griffin did in fact try to locate the inheritance, called it quits in 1894-and for his pains earned the disapproval of the French National Assembly, which demanded a more thorough investigation. Government opinion, however, seems to have quietly come round...
...from George Painter's brilliant but specialized Proust: The Later Years to Richard Dillon's Meriwether Lewis, in its own way an equally special and rather Proustian account of an imaginative, ultimately ravaged figure in U.S. history. For those who remain fascinated by Dylan Thomas, Constantine FitzGibbon retold the life of the doomed Welshman, warts, work, women and booze. In a more sedate mood, Lady Longford, in her Queen Victoria: Born to Succeed, presented the best biographical portrait of the Queen and her age since Strachey...
Faulkner set 15 of his 19 novels in Yoknapatawpha County. He drew its map, crisscrossed its landscape in his stories, plotted the intricate genealogies of some of its families for four and five generations, told and retold its legends, and searched out its history back to its original Indian inhabitants...