Word: tales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Congratulations on your June 13 book review of Calvin Hoffman's tale regarding Shakespeare. Seldom has a more ridiculous manuscript found its way into print...
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Close to a million Americans at one time in their lives joined the Communist Party, but very few talk about it now. Last week one did. He told the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee a shoddy tale of party membership in the U.S. and of spy service abroad on behalf of the Kremlin. As sometimes happens, he triggered a chain reaction of disclosures about other people. Almost all had been or were still connected with the business of reporting the news, like the witness himself: Winston Burdett, 41, now a $20,000-a-year Columbia Broadcasting System radio and TV commentator...
...with a cultural eye-opener. The committee began with the idea of using the Louvre's 3½-acre Cour Carrée, one side of which is dominated by a superb Renaissance clock tower. What could be more appropriate than to stage a version of the Renaissance tale of Romeo and Juliet? And what treatment of that theme could be more grandiose than French Composer Hector Berlioz' half-symphony, half-opera, written in 1839? Berlioz composed his work for a chorus and three solo voices, but they are minor roles-he gave neither Romeo nor Juliet...
...with quickened tempo as it surges past Bear Mountain, and broad majesty as it reaches the Palisades; 2) Hendrick Hudson, the intrepid explorer, portrayed in horns and woodwinds and thundering percussion, often wistful because of his tragic end; 3) Rip Van Winkle, a clever description of the Washington Irving tale, in which Rip whistles for his dog (which answers "Woof! Woof!"), watches the dwarfs play at ninepins, has a couple of drinks while the bassoons rollick, sleeps it off and then calls for his dog (no "Woof"); 4) The Albany Night Boat, mostly moonlight and summer, and a five-piece...