Word: aesop
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...fables, March produced ironic little works in Aesop's ancient literary form. The best of the lot is called Aesop's Last Fable, in which the bemused peasantry, irritated at the fabulist's inability to give a straight answer to a straight question, throw him over a cliff. Here March seems to indicate his sad beliefs as to the function and fate of the writer who says unwelcome things. As for the short stories, many of them concern madness and abnormality, and are set in a shambling Southern town called Reedyville. They have the sincere hysteria...
...Disneyland (Wed. 7:30 p.m.. ABC). Cartoon versions of tales by Aesop, La Fontaine, Andersen and the Brothers Grimm...
Disneyland (Wed. 7:30 p.m., ABC). Fantasyland, featuring Aesop, La Fontaine, the Grimms and Hans Christian Andersen fairy tales...
Convincingness, the sine qua non of illustration, led even Mobile-Maker Alexander Calder to resort to the recognizable for his illustrations of a recent edition of Aesop's Fables. Calder's depiction of a vain crow being adorned with peacock feathers by his feathered friends has more wit than force, and looks more like a bent-wire construction than a drawing, but any child can grasp it and enjoy...
...last few years there has been added to all this hilariously unnatural history a beautiful and often tender and serious attempt, in a series of camera essays on plant and animal life, to see the natural world as it really and painfully is. Aesop on the assembly line, mythology in mass production-whatever it may be called, Disneyism has swept the world...