Word: talese
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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On Oct. 25, eve of the Shah's 59th birthday, 1,126 political prisoners were released, bringing the total to more than 2,700 over the past two months. Many of the former inmates immediately went to newspapers with grim tales of the tortures to which they had been...
Eventually Haley started carrying a tape recorder around with him at all times to dictate his family tales. Within six weeks he piled up more than 800 pages of transcript. From this raw material, Writer Ernest Kinoy and Producer Stan Margulies constructed a plot that chronicles Haley's family...
The wonder, says Silberman, is that blacks did not explode sooner. Instead, they sublimated their rage with elaborate "toasting sessions" at which they would spin tall tales about underdogs outfoxing their oppressors, or celebrate the likes of "the Great MacDaddy" ("Got a tombstone disposition and a graveyard mind"), who would...
Or ignored. In the '30s Shaw sang a chant of social significance; the tales are filled with laborers and struggling families indistinguishable from Clifford Odets or Arthur Miller characters. But by the '40s he had found his own voice, a Shavian mix of irony and poignance. Since then...
It is Shaw's typical mode, and one that too many critics and readers have taken literally. A revision is overdue. The experience of going through these resonant tales, remembers the author, was some thing like what is supposed to happen when a man is drowning, as scene after...