Word: talese
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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It was not until the appearance of the Father Brown mysteries in the early '20s that readers discerned, in his vast output, a sense of the author's bedrock beliefs. The tales followed a bumbling, intuitive priest who understood evil more profoundly than any policeman. Chesterton said he...
Anthony Cave Brown, a Briton whose 1975 book, Bodyguard of Lies, described the intelligence work that preceded the 1944 Normandy invasion, has done an appropriately heroic job of separating the leader from the legend. Brown had some advantages over his ill-fated predecessors, among them Donovan's private papers...
It is certainly true that many columnists and news reporters have taken hard shots at the man. The New York Times recently ran a picture showing people on a food line one cold night; the brightly-lit White House was plainly visible across the street. Network news shows often interview...
The movie centers on the characters rather than the plot, the latter being quite simple. Even in Salt Lake City, neuroses abound. Most of the characters seem to have been abandoned, left to their own, insufficient, devices. Charles, a civil servant, is confined to his glass cubicle for most of...
But one of the few cheering 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...