Word: tales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...greatest wildcatter of all, Mike Ben-edum (TIME, Oct. 7, 1957), and his partner Joe Trees in 1904 found an arrow carved in a rock in West Virginia, heard a tale that it pointed to treasure buried by pirates years before, sighted along it and drilled a 3,000-bbl.-a-day producer. In the same state, hearing of a blind farmer's vision of oil spouting over his maple tree, they drilled on the spot, found a 300-bbl.-a-day well. In Illinois, following the directions of a blind judge who had developed his own theory...
...repetitive, copybook attitudes of the ballet corps occasionally clotted the action and wearied the eye. But for the most part, the old war horse of the classic ballet came alive with a freshness it rarely achieves. A big part of the reason: the Russians approach the old fairy tale with simple, direct, unsophisticated conviction that communicates a sense of joy to the audience...
...from the annual profits.) The networks, he complains, are copycats, scorning new ideas in a race for the bandwagon. (But his own firm, Talent Associates, Ltd., has made its reputation with such tried old "original" offerings as The Bridge of San Luis Rey, The Swiss Family Robinson and A Tale of Two Cities...
...descriptions in recent fiction, the others go. Only the former commander of the soldiers is left, and he is reduced to cannibalism. With all its obvious symbolism, its irony, its implicit plea for man's humanity to man, Death in That Garden will best be remembered as a tale of adventure brought off with literary flair and an almost savage imagination...
...note. In this book, able and highly readable, Historian Alfred (Julius Caesar) Duggan writes the first full-dress account of Mithradates' amazing life. Deftly stitched together from sundry classical sources (Plutarch, Appian, Strabo), King of Pontus is not only an excellent piece of history but a first-rate tale of war and adventure whose hero is never more heroic than in the closing years of a long and lusty life...