Word: talese
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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She saw us from far across the cavernous hall, past the rows of tables laden with laptops and telephones, beyond the center of the room where the dervishes spun, as we huddled together and comforted one another with tales of campaigns gone by. We saw her too: lustrous of hair...
Alas, as we head into a brand new year at Harvard, full of promise and tales untold, it has become obvious that relations between the students and Dean Lewis will be no better than they were last year, and might, if this is conceivable, be worse. And while it may...
Ever since his collection of moral tales, The Book of Virtues, began its 88-week ride on the New York Times best-seller list, Bennett has plumbed and profited from America's anxiety over the decline in standards of moral behavior. The success of his first Virtues anthology spawned two...
During his time as Education Secretary, Bennett had become convinced that the country needed an update of McGuffey's Reader, a collection of moral tales children could read, and have read to them, to help counter all the junk on TV. When he left the Bush Administration, Bennett set out...
No one imagined the response The Book of Virtues would elicit, with 2.3 million copies sold to date. Bennett followed with an illustrated Children's Book of Virtues; a separate anthology aimed at adults, The Moral Compass; and the PBS cartoon series in which a buffalo named Plato (who bears...