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Other writers have been tempted to speak for Molière, often with lamentable results. In the 1950s, Poet Morris Bishop translated eight Molière plays into verse that fell as flat as his unrhymed pentameter. The latest effort is a musical-comedy version of The Miser in jive talk...
Some are reminiscent of the rabbinical parables Singer heard his father tell in Poland. A rich miser lends his neighbor a silver spoon. Next day the borrower returns the utensil, and brings with it a smaller one because "your tablespoon gave birth to a teaspoon." Delighted, the miser offers a set of candlesticks, only to learn, two days later, that they have passed away. "How can candlesticks die?" screams the rich man. Greed gets a talmudic reply: "If spoons can give birth, candlesticks...
...world," he explains. "And did you discover it?" "No, no ... not really; you see, I couldn't find it!" In Eve's Dream, plants display a variety of personalities, as they do in the tales of Andersen and Grimm. The rose turns out to be a miser able beauty with a catty voice. The chest nut is strong but egotistical; "The trees and flowers know this. When they are in trouble they go to the sympathetic pine...
...Grinch Stole Christmas," Dec. 18. This is the 17th rebroadcast of the animated Dr. Seuss classic, which follows one miser's ill-fated attempt to erase Christmas from the village of Whoville. The late Boris Karloff provides the voice of Grinch, as well as all the other voices and narration...
...materialism, but Barks' stories always come up with someone even greedier, or some force of history that the duck cannot best. In the end, Scrooge's enjoyment of wealth remains essentially benign, childish in its selfishness, but childlike in its spirit. Whether the old miser would acquire this volume is a moot point. It is pricey; on the other wing, it is an investment. An entire genre of clothbound comic strips from Little Nemo to Doonesbury has flourished in the post-Pop era, but seldom has such loving care been lavished on a volume of bygone entertainment. Collectors...