Word: talese
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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5. Tales of Manhattan, Auchincloss (6)
What Twiggy is doing for fashions, a new breed of audacious British thieves is doing for crime. British crime has become both more frequent and more spectacular ever since the Great Train Robbery of 1963 whetted rascals' appetites for neatly executed commando-type operations-and titillated the imagination of...
6. Tales of Manhattan, Auchincloss (7)
Challenge plays down the academic character of its subject matter. A recent letter to prospective students said: "In Challenge we don't study English: we do pantomime, act out stories and plays, read horror tales, write comic and adventure stories, and play Hangman and Ghost."
Sir: Some day, I keep hoping, you will grow out of this thing you have for dictators and stop your juvenile swooning over every two-bit muscle man who comes along promising to make the trains run on time by jailing every lefty and long-hair in sight. Now you...