Word: tales
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...military security. But here & there was vouchsafed a glimpse-such as Franklin Roosevelt's afterdeck chats with Near Eastern potentates; here & there a sound, like the short snort from Socialism's old warhorse, George Bernard Shaw. Snorted Shaw: "[The Yalta Conference is] an impudently incredible fairy tale. . . . Will Stalin declare war on Japan as the price of surrender of the other two over Lublin? Not a word about it. Fairy tales, fairy tales, fairy tales. I for one should like to know what really passed at Yalta. This will all come out 20 years hence, when Stalin writes...
Taking Mr. Shaw's lead, one of TIME'S editors has written the following political fairy tale. Since fairy tales, like more solemn reports, have their implications and their moral, TIME wishes to make it clear that it admires and respects our heroically, recognizes great mutuality of interests between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.-but that in any argument between Communism and Democracy, TIME is on the side of Democracy...
...tale of 14th Century Verona, the star-cross'd lovers' sacrifice united the feuding groups. In the tale of 20th Century Berlin, there was no such promise...
Beauty & the Beast (Paulvé; Lopert), the innocent old fairy tale written in 1757 by Madame Le Prince de Beaumont, seems to many surrealists to state the problem of good & evil in its "real" terms, i.e., as a sexual, male-female equation, with symbols of profane and sacred love. Poet-Playwright-Producer Jean Cocteau, a part-time surrealist, has now transformed the tale into a film that is a wondrous spectacle for children of any language, and quite a treat for their parents...
...illustrated himself, that Thackeray came closest to realizing his earlier ambition to draw. ("What, you, too, Mr. Titmarsh? you sneering wretch. . .?") His last and most famous Christmas book-The Rose and the Ring-was written around some sketches he had drawn to amuse his daughters. He continued his fairy tale to entertain a neighbor's sick child. "It was," wrote the little girl, "a black day when the dear giant did not come. The people in The Rose and the Ring were real people...