Word: tales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Adventures of Tom Sawyer . . . was made by Mr. Mark Twain," explains Huckleberry Finn in opening the tale of his own adventures, "and he told the truth mainly. There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth...
Debussy: Pelléas and Melisande (Suzanne Danco, Pierre Mollet, Heinz Rehfuss; L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande conducted by Ernest Ansermet; London, eight sides LP). Maeterlinck's fairy tale floating along the stream of Debussy's consciousness. The voices of the principals are all excellent and so is their French diction; Ansermet's subtle direction could scarcely be bettered...
Last week the Austrian post office, administrator of the telephone system, proudly announced that the service would be expanded. Beginning Sept. 1, a lazy parent may dial A-0-60 and tune his child in on a complete five-minute bedtime fairy tale. Different story every night...
...Arab tale which inspired Horace Walpole to add a word to the language...
...Time of the Assassins, by Godfrey Blunden. A tale of two fanaticisms-SS and NKVD-in the Ukrainian city of Kharkov (TIME...