Word: talese
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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And the isolation also gives way to a certain reticence, though to varying degrees. Robert Sullivan, a history tutor in Kirkland House, shies away from discussing his term of Army duty in South Vietnam. "I'm sorry to be disobliging, but although I'm something of a fount of Saigon...
Milos Forman (Loves of a Blonde, 1965) and Ivan Passer (Intimate Lighting, 1965) rejected any theoretical approach to reality. Theirs is one of close, almost microscopic observation; they find "in that microcosm of human action a portrait of the social reality as a whole" This accounts for the political dimension...
1975: Twice-Told Tales
What I like best are the book's biographies. Gems, every jack of them. Zircons, actually. George Washington in four pages. Lincoln in three. Even in the U.S., Burke 's retains its pukka airs. Calls Nixon "controversial." L.B.J.'s the chap who had "a large stock of...
"It is impossible to live in Harlem and not know at least a hundred Simples, fifty Joyces, twenty-five Zaritas, a number of Boyds, and several cousin Minnies or reasonable facsimilies thereof." Langston Hughes writes in his introduction to another collection of Simple stories, Simple's Harlem is a glimpse...