Word: tales
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spent most of the next 23 years on the Riviera. When she returned to her native Japan in 1938, the nationalist press greeted her return with scorn. "Mme. Yuki," one paper snorted, "the Japanese who doesn't speak Japanese." Last week, however, all Japan was mooning over the tale of the little geisha who years ago had first snubbed and then snared the rich American. 0-Yuki's story had run an unprecedented 260 installments in three newspapers. The text was supported by pictorial tearjerkers, such as George and O-Yuki sleeping on Japanese-style mats in Paris...
Each of the three stories is at least as good and as readable as any that have appeared in the Advocate since the war. "What a Man Has to Do," by Harold Fleming, is a restrained tale of violence and race hatred that has no direct message. Prejudice and hate press harder and harder on Berry, the Negro Army sergeant, until he "flies apart like the works of an over wound clock." This is a real short story, so seldom seen hitherto around here, with real characters in real situations...
...only is the grocery store cat in constant danger from the racketeers, but even the squirrels in the Yard are not safe. The story of the captured rat of Hollis Hall, for which the world is not yet ready, is known by some and suspected by many, but the tale is too horrible to tell. It is enough to say that had the event been made open and legal by University Hall from the beginning, many lives and many hearts would have been spared...
...daze for years. John Steinbeck's The Wayward Bus displayed his sensory gifts and grasp of underdog U.S. types, but these qualities failed to counterbalance a cheap plot. In The Pearl, published in book form at year's end, Steinbeck reworked an old Mexican folk tale with over-deliberate folksiness. Lion Feuchtwanger's novel of 18th Century France had all the solidity and splendor of an old Orpheum Theater backdrop of Versailles. And Ben Ames Williams, old Satevepost standby, was delivered of a 1,514-page Civil War novel...
When the Mountain Fell, a tale of utter simplicity and symbolic depth by the late Swiss Novelist Charles Ferdinand Ramuz, reminded some readers and writers of the value of perfected style. So did The Collected Tales of E. M. Forster, England's dean of novelists...