Word: andersens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Running an article on fairy stories without mentioning Hans Christian Andersen or Mother Goose would be unthinkable. The zoo did not spring from the ground like a soap bubble, and it does seem as though TIME might include a nod to the author...
...story, by Colette, has a Hans Christian Andersen simplicity: a naughty child, in a harlequin rage, rips up the furniture, twists the cat's tail, yanks the clock's pendulum and exults: "I'm free-naughty and free." In the second scene, the animals gather to threaten the child, forgive him only after he has come to the aid of an injured squirrel...
...WATCHMAN, by Davis Grubb (275 pp.; Scribner; $3.95), is the latest of the author's marrow-chilling tales of good and evil, written in a style compounded of Hans Christian Andersen imaginativeness and American Gothic hyperbole. His Night of the Hunter (1954), a surefooted, poetic horror story of two children and a malevolent pursuer, was told with controlled passion. Now in The Watchman, Grubb has pulled out all the stops, piled terror on madness, disaster on helplessness. The book is a mixture of poetic rage against cruelty in man, a song in praise of physical love...
Theodore A. Andersen, U.C.L.A.: It's by far the mildest recession since the turn of the century. We have a severe unemployment problem because of an extraordinary increase in the labor force and a shortage of trained and educated persons. But gross national product has declined less than 1%, total employment has increased by half a million, and nonproduction jobs are up 1,500,000 over a year ago. I expect production to start rising in March or April...
...income taxes. G.O.P. opponents made much of the tax fight and chided Freeman's poor judgment in sending state militia to close a strikebound Wilson & Co. Inc. meat-packing plant, an action reversed in federal court. Upshot: Freeman lost by 23,000 votes to Republican Newcomer Elmer Andersen, while Friend Hubert Humphrey was winning a third Senate term and Jack Kennedy was carrying the state...