Word: talese
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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One of Ronald Reagan's favorite rhetorical devices is the vivid example-a "welfare queen" ripping off the system, a school lunch program providing meals to affluent children-that purports to exemplify a pervasive national problem. Such anecdotage, critics claim, tends to oversimplify and distort complex situations. But the...
Any good books lately? Well, there is a hardback collection of Typee, Omoo and Mardi, all by a young novelist named Herman Melville (1819-91). Nearly 33,000 copies have been printed, shipped and readied for sale. And that is not all. Three look-alike companions are also hot off...
William McKibben, in his editorial. "Homage to Pilgrimage," seriously distorts the message presented in the Bible. It is in fact difficult to say that there is any message in the Bible, since it is the accretion of over 1000 years' worth of tales, poems, history, and tracts, with little regard...
It is hard to imagine a more dangerous agenda. With the wholesale destruction of North American streams and lakes at the hands of acid rain already underway, with every week bearing a host of new tales of illegal or forgotten chemical dumpings and with every new report of the myriad...
Chinabound is anecdotes. It is the "oriental serutability" of "Ed Reischauer," the six-week bike ride before the first visit to China, encounters with Chou En-Lai, and rounding up Chinese journalists at their homes by jeep for a Douglas Mac Arthur press conference which was suddenly rescheduled. But it...