Word: talese
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What makes China so inscrutable these days is not the mystery of events so much as their exaggeration. Rhetoric and hyperbole are built into Chinese grammar, and the Chinese by nature are prone to overstatement. None practice verbal inflation with greater verve than the South Chinese, whose largest city, Canton...
Restraining Both Sides. Many of the Canton tales seem beyond belief-and they probably are. Reliable eyewitnesses are scarcer than dragon's teeth, and, unaccountably, no one has come out of China with a single picture documenting the mass scenes of violence, bodies hanging from trees and tanks firing...
No horrendous anti-Western tales are too incredible to be disbelieved, no facts about Communism or the Third World sufficiently well-documented to be accepted. The liberal intelligentsia has replaced reason by faith, rational judgments by visceral reactions."
A swinging example of her work has been published jointly by the United Church Press and the Roman Catholic firm of Herder and Herder. Footnotes and Headlines: A Play-Pray Book is a 50-page volume of mod meditations filled with brilliant swatches of color and eye-catching graphics. Most...
Persian miniaturists who illustrated such tales hundreds of times, practiced their art to such perfection that even today scholars cannot determine whether they used brush or pen. Jewel-like colors were heightened to captivate a patron sultan who had genuine gems. Subject matter was aimed to keep him entertained. To...