Word: talese
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Notorious Coastline. Many of them tell gruesome tales of the civil war. The most terrifying feature of the struggle, said Leona Parsons, a missionary based at Bongo in central Angola, "was the complete breakdown of all normal civilized life. As long as I live, I shall never forget the sight...
I was enchanted and afraid all at once, and I put my head down and wished he would go away, and when I looked up, really he was gone! And I turned my head, wanting to talk to him now with urgency. And as soon as I turned back around...
Tales of George Sand's amours with Liszt, Heine, Balzac and Flaubert are also dismissed as apocryphal. With the record thus cleared, Biographer Cate dramatically details the involvements that his scholarship can verify-including affairs with Prosper Mérimeée, Alfred de Musset, Frédé...
Literary revisionists seem to retouch their portraits with the blackest of ink. Charles Dickens and Robert Frost are among those who have appeared as conspicuously darker souls to their later readers. Once upon a time Rudyard Kipling was adored as the bully-boy balladeer of the British Empire, a hearty...
Travelers returning from Poland last week reported that Warsaw is awash with rumors about Pawlowski's fate. He is said to have had his hands broken in prison by the Polish secret police, or to have committed suicide in Modlin prison outside Warsaw. According to one rumor, Pawlowski was...