Word: tales
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Duchess, hopped over from Paris without her. He said something about getting some shirts mended, talked to his King brother, his old friend Winston Churchill, many another high-placed personage, and hopped back to Paris trailing clouds of speculation. Meantime in Paris his shocked valet de chambre scotched the tale of the shirt, informed reporters: "But really he would never think of having his shirts mended in London. This is the place for that. Why, in Paris the needlework is simply extraordinary...
Each of the six huge watercolors in Burchfield's new exhibition shows an easily recognizable season. He got ideas for his howling, Disney-like Blizzard (which he describes as "the sort of storm that might have descended on that mythical village of the old fairy tale The Snow Queen") by tramping Gardenville's streets on last winter's worst days, when it was too cold to stop anywhere long and sketch. He sees in it, above the houses, "the ghostly spirit of the wind and snow, about to engulf the village, and beyond that is a dark...
...Would-Be Gentleman (adapted from Moliére's Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme by Bobby Clark; produced by Michael Todd) was for 276 years a satiric comedy. Last week it became a slaphappy farce. Adapter Clark first cut up Moliére's tale of an upstart boob who ached to shine in high society. Then Actor Clark cut up in it. The result, here & there, is as hilarious as it is heterodox. But mostly it falls flat...
Even without a thorough grounding in the classical Chinese theatre, one feels that "Lute Song" has preserved the essential spirit of a lyrical drama with a simple, fairy tale-like atmosphere unfamiliar to must American theatre goers. The unadorned plot--a story similar to Chancer's "Patient Griselda"--remains intact through the translation and condensation into one-third the original length, as do elements of Confucian ethics and what appears to be satire of Buddhist ritual...
Teaching had hardly changed since Ptolemy's day. Education was by rote and rod. A young, ugly, runty, sad-eyed Swiss scholar wanted to do something about it. Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi had already thought of preaching as a career-and his first sermon was so bad, the tale goes, that he laughed out loud in the middle of it. He tried law, and flopped again. At 22, in the year 1768, he bought a farm-and failed at that, too. But while his crops went to ruin, he filled his house with waifs, strays and farm kids, and began...