Word: talese
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The noise from Peking showed no sign of diminishing, and continued to fascinate the non-Communist world with fresh tales of old skeletons in Communist closets. In one announcement, Red China took full credit for forcing a weak-kneed Khrushchev ("who had decided to abandon Socialist Hungary to counterrevolution") to...
Above all, Director Ray is a teller of tales, a Bengali Balzac who envisions personal tragedy as a part of the human comedy, who can see the universal in the unique. He has created in the zamindar a character both peculiarly Indian and profoundly human, a man who would not...
MOST black Africans only learned to write down their songs and tales in the past hundred years, but they are heirs to centuries of oral literature. In their search for an African identity, the continent's contemporary poets-many of them leading politicians-today have forsaken their mission-school...
Statistical Impossibility. In its pure state machismo is linked with valor, courage, honor and dignity, but too often it is more gun-toting brag than performance. Machos insist that the women they marry be virgins, and they will defend the honor of their sisters to the death-all of which...
At his best, as in Tales of the South Pacific, Michener evokes a sense of place and exotic atmosphere and, as in the opening pages of Hawaii, comes close to poetry. At his worst, he writes prose comic strips that combine the emotional depth of Mary Worth and the flavor...