Word: tales
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Crown Matrimonial, British Playwright Royce Ryton qualifies as one of the grounds keepers of history. He rakes up a pile of yellowed 1936 newspaper clippings to reassemble the tale of how Edward VIII abdicated his kingship in order to marry "the woman I love...
Haggard's biography is one way in which there is more Woody Guthrie than Bull Connor in him: it's the perfect Grapes of Wrath tale of a family migrating from Oklahoma to the San Fernando Valley during the Depression, carrying what they could, nearly starving, making it through by hard work and a strict refusal to accept charity from anyone...
...Gaulle for having betrayed Algérie française. The authors, Pierre Démaret, 31, who once belonged to the O.A.S., and Christian Plume, 48, a journalist, interviewed former O.A.S. leaders and obtained access to the French Interior Ministry's records. The result is an extraordinary tale of mad zeal, abominable planning and incredibly bad luck by what was surely the world's most dedicated and inept gang of assassins...
...insulting proper ones. The writing often recalls Gertrude Stein's stonier prose - obdurate, flat and mannered. Hellman is a virtuoso of ellipsis, a quality that doubtless served her well as a dramatist. In Pentimento she seems to take pride in leaving out connectives, or capping a half-told tale with a brief coda, unrelated except for the faintest resonance of tone...
Almost everywhere farmers reveled in the record high prices for their harvests. In Ramsey County in the heart of North Dakota's wheat country, people told the tale of the farmer on the verge of selling his durum wheat for $7.20 per bu. (compared with $1.35 last year) who slipped out to the toilet. By the time he returned, the price had jumped 600. In Maine, clam diggers pocketed $18 per bu. for clams that brought $10 per bu. last year. Tuna harpooners sold their catches for 650 per lb., compared with 150 last year. The food producer...