Word: tales
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...comment." Foreigners in Peking soon discovered that photographs of the four radicals were no longer available in bookstores-a common sign of a purge. None of the radicals appeared at Peking's airport when visiting Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Michael Somare arrived, giving further credence to the tale of their arrest. None of the four were at Somare's welcoming banquet next day, but neither was Chairman Hua. His ally Li Hsien-nien did the honors and said blandly (or perhaps ironically), "The situation in China is excellent." At this dinner, however, a Foreign Ministry spokesman confirmed...
...Itallie molds his play around the tale of Genesis, interspersing modern-day anecdotes and events with re-enactments of chapters of the First Book. He seems to believe that the Old Testament offers an eternal guide to human psychology and the model for a vaguely cyclical interpretation of history. But the analogies he sets up are tenuous and, one suspects, carelessly thought out. The mythical and the mundane are only superficially integrated, and the serious analysis which the playwright looks to be inviting is better left untried...
...experience is only part of the story, and you need only look at the newcomers to complete the tale...
...themselves in the rocks. Later, in the seventh and eighth centuries, they were joined by great numbers of Byzantines seeking refuge from their Arab brethren. Invasions were nothing new to Anatolia. From the days of the Hittites, Hurrites, and Assyrians, its history is a colorful, if rather repetitive, tale of conquerors surging from west to east, and from east to west...
...more sequence would have rendered this desolate tale more humane and, I think, more complete. Perhaps not the sort of rediscovered affection that caps off Portrait of a Marriage, but maybe a glimpse into the middle seventies when through, say, a feminist sharing group, Mrs. Elliot would have the chance to communicate her despair with other ex-wives in the same aimless, professionless bind. One hopes so, at least, because she can't sit and stare at the symbolic wallpaper forever...