Word: talese
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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He was also quick to pounce, often humorously, when he sniffed out dishonest intentions or botched executions. He acknowledges one novelist's gradations of ineptitude: "She began several years ago with writing unmitigated nonsense, and she now writes nonsense very sensibly mitigated." He praises with faint damns a pamphlet composed...
But one of the few cheery aspects of exam period is that over the years, it has inspired a lively collection of seasonal tales. Some are apocryphal, and some are founded in documented truth. All are reassuring reminders that January's misery is common to everyone and has its brighter...
As the author states succinctly in his preface. The Glory of Their Times is the story of the early days of baseball told by the men who played it. This is the age of people like Cy Seymour and Zack Wheat playing ball in places like Wahoo Nebraska and Marlin...
ROCKABY. In two stunning short plays by Samuel Beckett, Footfalls and Rockaby, daft old women lull themselves to death with monologues of sere poetry. This explorer of the darkest human emotions found in Actress Billie Whitelaw the ideal interpreter of his spectral campfire tales.
The post-Solitude stories in this volume exhibit a slight decline in energy and enthusiasm, as if the writer now feels cramped by a form that he had enjoyed experimenting with earlier. Perhaps, as the evidence of the past twelve years suggests, he has gone over entirely to the writing...