Word: tales
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...word coined by Walpole after the fairy tale recounting the happy adventures of The Three Princes of Serendip (or Ceylon...
This delightful tale was written by Steven M. Luxenberg and Andrew P. Corty...
...third and final volume of The Americans, Daniel Boorstin chronicles the making of the American democratic experience and the unmaking of the democratic paragon. It is a sad book with an all too tragic tale to tell...
Boorstin's tale of democracy gone astray and the defiling of the ideal has the ring of truth to it. He is always persuasive in his demonstration of these failings. His ability to show the historical roots of America's present uninspired attitude toward democracy is worthy of the highest praise. But the reader has a right to expect more from the historian than an explanation which holds that what happened happened because physical circumstance did not allow otherwise...
...reach of officials and journalists. Now and then, prompted by some election or dramatic event, an official "crisis" is declared in one of these struggles, and the detailed stories are brought to light, while bureaucrats and community leaders cling by the skin of their reputations to the unraveling tale...