Word: talese
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At stake is more than just public safety. Miami has already been buffeted this year by race riots in its impoverished Liberty City district and by the influx of more than 100,000 Cuban refugees; the region cannot afford to let its image slip further. The lucrative winter resort season...
The fiery imagination of the Greeks created more elaborate tales about the golden planet. The Greeks called it Cronus, after the evil-tempered son of Earth and Heaven, who married his sister Rhea and devoured five of his own children because he feared them as rivals. Finally, when Zeus, the...
DIED. Nevill Coghill, 81, leading Chaucer scholar whose 1951 modern English version of The Canterbury Tales remains the standard translation; in Cheltenham, England. A fellow in English at Oxford University from 1925 to 1966, Coghill tutored precocious undergraduates like W.H. Auden and directed several plays for the Oxford University Dramatic...
Stephen King knocks out formula tales about ordinary people, folks much like you or me -- except that they can see into the future or cause stones to rain from the sky. These protagonists are pitted against, and triumph over, the evilest of forces. King doesn't for a moment aspire...
The image of the local literati's artistic work is descended from a romantic regionalism of "tall tales" on camp fire trails, but this image is changing with the rapid growth of the city and the migration of many non-Texan artists to this university town, evolving into a hybrid...