Word: tales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Familiar Tale. To a certain point, the election went as planned. Jagan piled up only 45.8% of the vote; Burnham won 40.5% and stood ready to form a coalition with the third-running United Force Party (12%), headed by Portuguese Businessman Peter d'Aguiar. But then Cheddi simply refused to resign. "The election was fraudulent," he announced. "The British government will have to force me out." Unimpressed, the governor formally appointed Burnham Prime Minister...
...familiar tale. Jagan, a dentist turned demagogue, founded the P.P.P. in 1950 with his Chicago-born, sometime-Communist wife Janet, and won the colony's first general elections in 1953. Jagan's intemperate demands for independence and deliberately incited sugar strikes forced the British to boot him out after five months. Ever since his return to power three years ago, Jagan has gone out of his way to foment racial passions. When last week's elections were announced in October 1963, his answer was to send his sugar workers out on a savage strike that lasted...
...white hostages still held by the savage rebel fighters known as Simbas (lions). By week's end they had rescued 600 whites-Belgian nuns and priests, Greek shopkeepers and restaurateurs, British and American missionaries. From nearly every man, woman and child saved came another numbing tale of terror, torture or death. Each could recall his own particular nuit infernale, but the most hellish of nights was that recounted by the 76 whites held captive by the rebels in the eastern Congo tin-mining town of Bunia...
...therapeutically hilarious Luv. Sorry-I-was-ever-born plays now sound like hollow parodies rather than dour profundities; since Luv raised its satirical whoop, playgoers are bound to lessen their self-commiserating indulgence of misery. More than ever a playwright who intends to woo his audience with some tale of woe will have to do it out of an intensely felt, intensively rendered personal experience...
...making the award, Phi Beta Kappa called Bate's Book "a thoroughly disciplined study." "A freshness of approach to what we already knew," it continued, "make the whole read like a tale newly told. Nothing is trivial, nothing extraneous...