Word: talese
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This individuality, which was both Babel's genius and his death warrant, comes through best in his tales of old Odessa. In them, Chekhov's melancholy, Maupassant's detachment and Gogol's grotesque wit seem to fuse into the unmistakable Babel voice. It is a voice...
That is about 90 per cent of what one can say about the economic consequences of rent control. All of it was said, to be sure, repeatedly in the council chambers, but the discussion of the policy occupied but a small portion of the debate. Most of it focused on...
There are grusome tales in the pages of the Bird, itself, telling how longhaired people get arrested for jaywalking and then thrown in jail. The Bird is now on trial for, of all things, obscenity. I don't have to tell you that this stuff against the Bird is political...
All public tragedies tend to become cautionary tales. Survivors of Munich have learned a lesson by heart: appeasement is a loser's game. But today, most men are not so sure as they once were of just what constitutes "appeasement"-or whether a policy of "get tough" is a...
Darryl F. Zanuck seized control of 20th Century-Fox in 1962 after a lot of nasty infighting; in five years he and his son Richard turned a single-year loss of $39.8 million into a single-year profit of $12.5 million. Success, naturally, bred envy. And envy gave rise to...