Word: tales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fine Harvard tale and for the purposes of later year nostalgia it belongs somewhere near the story of the ice cream fund donation. The determination of scholarship size, for the dedicated group of men who work in Weld and University Halls has become almost as scientific a job as the study of electronics in a nearby Cambridge institute...
Theater Royal (Sun. 9:30 p.m., NBC). The Tale with Sir Ralph Richardson...
...same bill is the loudly-heralded UPA adaptation. On the same bill is the loudly-heralded UPA adaptation nof Edgar Allen Poe's "The tell-tale Heart." Imaginatively interpreted in a sort of restrained surrealism, it is a delight to the eye, but fails to capture the terror and suspense of the original yarn...
...actors from time to time. Two of the sets, the Baker Street flat and a mountain chalet, are excellent, but the partitioning of the stage to present flashbacks which could be far better expressed in a sentence of dialogue makes the clutter hopeless. In the general disarray, the involved tale of the stolen Bruce-Partington plans is all the more difficult to follow...
...year 1859 flares up in English literature like a volcanic eruption. In that one year were published (wholly or in part) Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities, Thackeray's The Virginians, George Eliot's Adam Bede, Tennyson's Idylls of the King, Darwin's The Origin of Species, Fitzgerald's translation of The Rubciydt of Omar Khayyam. Almost ignored in the rush was a novel named The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, by one George Meredith. Today, nearly a century after, both Meredith and his Ordeal are still little more than names in an English...