Word: talese
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The most severe of these is Donaldson's prose style. Before his death in 1982 Cheever had regaled many interviewers and companions with tales of his past. The litany took on anecdotal grandeur: his glamorous New England ancestors, his childhood in Quincy, Mass., as the second son of a failed...
Cheever would have groaned, or said something quite rude about such stale expressions. He was, after all, capable of describing himself as "intrinsically disheveled." Worse still, Donaldson seems only dimly aware of the discipline and artistry that went into Cheever's fiction. Two early stories, the biographer writes, "were deeply...
Smith keeps encountering that miracle on his pastoral wanderings. A septuagenarian lay preacher named Peter Mabuza, for example, welcomes him to his tiny township house and offers Coca-Cola and cookies, along with jocular tales of his youth, when his "baas" thrashed him for sitting on the bed of the...
Such tales finally forced the Missouri legislature to take this spring's action. But the onslaught of ATVs continues to worry local officials in Reynolds County, where the population of 7,500 increases as much as fivefold on holiday weekends. Even with the new law, says County Sheriff Gary Barton...
Rumors have surrounded Mona A. Khalil '88 for as long as she has been at Harvard. When her name comes up in conversation, one may discover she is a member of "Arab royalty," her father is an oil sheik or that she has a personal body guard. Khalil, however, laughs...