Word: tales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Waterfront. The year's best melodrama: Elia Kazan's tale of life and death among the longshoremen of New York Harbor; with Marlon Brando, Eva Marie Saint, Lee J. Cobb, Karl Maiden (TIME...
Gate of Hell. The year's most beautiful color picture: Teinosuke Kinugasa's interpretation of an old Japanese tale about a faithful wife; with Machiko Kyo, Kazuo Hasegawa (TIME...
...Seed (adapted from William March's novel by Maxwell Anderson) will not be easily dislodged as the season's most harrowing drama. It is the tale of a sweet, golden-haired, eight-year-old girl who, when crossed or cornered, indulges in murder. But its various homicides do not begin to exhaust its horrors. Slowly, tormentedly, the little girl's mother becomes aware of her daughter's nature; then she discovers that her own mother was a mass murderess also...
...Vida Breve (Victoria de los Angeles, Emilio Paya; Barcelona Opera Symphony conducted by Ernesto Halffter; Victor, 2 LPs). Written when he was nearly 30 (in 1905), this opera was chosen by Composer de Falla himself as his Op. 1. It starts as leisurely as a siesta, builds its tale of faithless love and sudden death (of a broken heart) to a warm climax. Soprano de los Angeles sings like a bird...
Harvard qualified for the senior division of the EISA by placing second in the Lydonville invitation Meet last winter against the member colleges in the junior division. The Crimson skiers also beat Princeton and Yale in the annual Harvard-Tale-Princeton Slalom on Mt. Washington late last spring...