Word: sagas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tarawa last week TIME Correspondent Robert Sherrod came upon a story oj incredible human endurance, the saga of a Gilbert Islands native who sailed 2,000 miles across the lonesome stretches of the South Pacific in a canoe. Nabetari's feat, unequaled in the lore of oceanic survival, has been officially confirmed. The story that follows is a simple English version prepared for translation into Gilbertese, which has only a 400-word vocabulary...
This did nothing to lessen the suspicions of the authorities, well versed in the fast-moving Rubinstein saga. Serge had been fleeing something, usually the authorities, most of his life...
...blood and thunder saga o the career of Billy the Kid, who "in the brief span of twenty-one years sent twenty-one men to untimely graves," the musical manages to keep a plot together while the audience witnesses at least fifteen of the murders in addition to innumerable songs and dances. The music is good, though nothing for the Hit Parade. The cast and scenes are colorfully symbolic of New Mexico, the locale of the story...
Vardis Fisher's saga of primitive man reaches Volume III with Intimations of Eve (earlier volumes: Darkness and the Deep, The Golden Rooms). Without doubt these are the most remarkable subhistorical works ever written in the State of Idaho. Unrelated to one another so far as "story" goes, they are part of what Fisher obviously regards as a serious attempt to trace "the origin and evolution of human morality" from the days of the ape man to relatively modern times. At what point of human development the saga will end is not clear, nor is it altogether clear...
...uncertain. The two pictures offered a wide choice. Young Widow, a sentimental wartime domestic drama with incidental stretches of comedy, was overwhelmingly Jane-in mourning, in love, in various stages of dress and undress. In The Outlaw, Oldtimers Thomas Mitchell and Walter Huston did their sly best with the saga of Billy the Kid. Jane, as a sulky, sexy, persistently semiclad half-breed, had a relatively minor part...