Word: talese
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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THE CROP OF biographies appearing in bookstores recently has been grim, glutted with post-Watergate tales of sin, the Fall, and redemption by the likes of Haldeman, Colson, Dean, Magruder and, eventually Nixon. So Tony Hiss '63 does us all a service with his bittersweet offering Laughing Last, a readable...
Evidently people take enormous pride in sensational tales about the exploits of their ancestors. Certainly, the aura of mystery about the ancients fascinates people. And in the case of theories like Fell's the traditional American sympathy for the underdog is aroused by the drama of an outsider challenging the...
But, for all that, the book succeeds. What it lacks in depth and style, it makes up in sheer power. The seemingly endless flood of names and numbers, the innumerable tales of heroism and cowardice, the continuous demonstrations of the storm's savagery, all add up to a compelling narrative...
Mark Twain is not foreign to the stage. Hal Holbrook, as a predessor of Julie Harris, has been translating Twain's tall tales to a theatrical setting for years. The impact of the People's Theater of Cambridge's current production of Six Twain Tales is not then in the...
Faust is present, as are Roland and Helen of Troy. The interchanges grow more complex until the images no longer simply reveal tales.