Word: telling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...little bit difficult," Rodriguez says. "I tell my family I am doing a thesis, and I have to explain to them what a thesis...
...strange are the ways of fate, and recalling their time as roommates in their Currier House suite, the four heartily laugh together and vie to tell their own version of the various episodes through which their rooming group, unlike so many that annually crowd the Yard, has survived and flourished...
Over the years, each has become accustomed to the others' jabs and jokes, and no pecking order seems to exist among them. There is no leader and no follower. When they tell jokes, in fact, they no longer need to tell the full versions, so well do they know each others' repertoire...
...what does Wolfe's dissection of New York City life tell us about the world so many graduates will enter? At best it belies a paradox...
ALTHOUGH he has unlocked many of the inner workings of urban culture, Wolfe has drawn criticism for his treatment of minorities. Wolfe writes with palpable terror as his hero and mistress take a wrong turn and are forced to drive through a minority neighborhood. Some would call this telling it like it is, but the writer Howard Fast, for one, felt obliged to write to The New York Times to tell of his car breaking down in the South Bronx--and the helpful assistance he received from local residents...