Word: talese
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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"A lot of the work I've done focuses on the transmission and transmutation of texts across cultural and genre boundaries--what happens as tales evolve and in what ways are they affected," says Mitchell.
The writer of fairy tales, said J.R.R. Tolkien, "makes a Secondary World which your mind can enter . . . You therefore believe it, while you are, as it were, inside." This year a dozen books invite young readers inside to visit the worlds of animals, machinery and legend, places that can be...
For hours this month, mesmerized South Koreans stared at their television sets as a national melodrama unfolded. Witness after witness tattled to a National Assembly investigating committee tales of corruption during the regime of former President Chun Doo Hwan, 57. The sordid revelations of wholesale cheating sparked widespread outrage among...
For many years it was taken as gospel that Marcos was the most decorated Filipino soldier of World War II. Technically that is true: while running for President in 1965 he nudged the Senate into retroactively awarding him some 20 medals for heroism, nine of them on the same day...
August is the time for returning to school, choosing classes, retelling tales of your summer over and over again, talking about baseball pennant races, scrutinizing your school's chances in the upcoming football season and arguing about who will win the national football championship.