Word: talese
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The Communist press of late has been proudly recounting the life story of 45-year-old Nguyen Thi Dinh, who has been a guerrilla since 1940, now has risen to the rank of deputy commander as well as member of the National Liberation Front presidium. Nguyen Thi Dinh got her...
Died. Thornton Waldo Burgess, 91, bedtime storyteller who regaled the country's moppets for nearly half a century with 71 books (7,500,000 copies and some 15,000 hare-raising tales about Peter Rabbit, Jimmy Skunk, Reddy Fox and other denizens of the Green Meadow that were syndicated...
Alberto Moravia is one of the leading money-changers in the fashionable temple of anxiety. He specializes in counterfeit intellectual currency: man is a hopeless victim of his own technology; sex is the only natural act remaining to man; life is just awful. It was awful in Moravia's...
>TIME did not "pooh-pooh" Tales of the South Pacific, did not even review it, but did say that the "fine, simple Tales" were better than Michener's second book, The Fires of Spring [Feb. 14, 1949].
The story read like a satire on all tales of international intrigue - Scandinavian division. There were hidden arms, Arab plotters and midnight sleuthing. There was a strutting, self-styled Fuhrer with plans to overthrow the Swedish government and liquidate the country's top Jews. And, finally, there was a...