Word: talese
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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LANGSTON HUGHES created Jess B. Simple in his newspaper column in the Chicago Defender in the 1940's. Posing behind a mantle of slow-witted stubbornness. Simple talks his way through barrooms and street corners, can of beer in hand, fashioning a glittering slice of Harlem life with his words...
Radcliffe senior June Cross's adaptation of "Simple's Uncle Sam," a collection of Simple's stories, into a play at the Loeb Ex centers on the people of Simple's world. Shifting her focus from Simple to the Harlem society he talks about. Cross has created a cast of...
IT was a rare week for business scandal: three tangled tales of million-dollar misdeeds grabbed the headlines simultaneously. In Washington, federal energy officials confirmed suspicions that overcharges by oil suppliers during last year's period of Arab embargo and shortage had cost consumers hundreds of millions of dollars...
The same mix of insight and overstatement results when Cuddihy transposes his theories to the contemporary scene. A spectacular foray into the 1970 Chicago Seven conspiracy trial, "A Tale of Two Hoffmans," provides one of the book's most fascinating moments. Cuddihy puts aside the legal issues and instead...
"My final examination in Chaucer was scheduled on the same day that Kauai King would be trying to win the Triple Crown at Belmont Park. I knew nothing about the Canterbury Tales but I did know something about Amberoid in the Belmont Stakes. So I went to the track."