Word: tales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...represent female insects who introduce the young, forlorn Novice (Nora Kaye) to the mating rite and to the harsh insect code which requires the death of the male partner. Robbins' savage but striking ballet caused some seat-squirming in the audience. The big question: Is it really a tale of insects, or a parable of life among human beings...
Carson McCullers was no flash in the pan. A year later, in. 1941, came another novel, Reflections in a Golden Eye. It was an exercise in the gothic tale, Southern style, and was crammed with pathology, but the pathology was handled with restraint and taste. In 1946 she published her third novel, The Member of the Wedding, a winsome remembrance of adolescence that later became a hit Broadway show...
Every year about this time, the lamentable Legend of Sydney Pumpton '47 rises to the minds of Seniors like a half-saturated log that has been stirred loose from the bottom of a pond. The tale is passed gingerly from mouth to mouth at breakfast and dinner tables. And Seniors are sore afraid...
...Committee reported yesterday that ticket sales are 500 per cent over what they were last year at this time. In an ago of darkness and insecurity, Seniors are heeding the Legend and are taking no chances. Most of them, that is. A few, apparently, have not heard Pumpton's tale, or they have received it in garbled form. We repeat it here for their benefit only...
...unfolded in the dream of a little boy, the movie's tale is still Andersen's universally appealing parable of the ancient Chinese emperor who learned to value carefree nature above sterile pomp and artifice. It is told with a good deal of charm, taste and imagination. But it is also overlong and repetitious. How well its deliberate pace will hold U.S. youngsters, raised on Walt Disney's blur-of-action technique, is a question that only the children themselves can settle...