Word: talese
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Western participants in the international fencing matches in Budapest last month expressed shock at the conspicuous absence of Pawlowski. Members of the now crippled Polish team, meanwhile, were plainly fearful of openly discussing the fate of their champion. Italian Fencer Mario Aldo Montano, twice the world champion, doubted tales that...
The Rockefeller Commission report detailed its transgressions. Two congressional investigations are probing its involvement in assassination plots and domestic spying. The press keeps producing fresh disclosures. With all this going on, the CIA looks less like a clandestine fraternity and more like an open society. New sensations would seem impossible...
Pascal theorized that all the world's troubles originated from man's inability to sit still in a room. Tarden's life is an enactment of that aphorism. His encounters serve chiefly to erode his soul and corrupt those who enter his life. A girl who falls...
INVISIBLE CITIES is an allegory for the mind. Its language, imagery, patterns create a sense of grace and lyricism seldom found in modern realistic fiction, but the joys and the sorrows of this book are cerebral ones, except twice. Once, almost in spite of Calvino's coolly allegorical portrait, Marco...
On another show the host listens to Galloping Gourmet Graham Kerr describe how he was "slain in the Spirit" and experienced the event as "going down into a bath full of goose feathers." After such tales come bleaker stories and pleas for spiritual help from listeners who have written letters...