Word: tales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Beaver & Velvet. To anyone who had watched the death of Nanking in 1949, the death of Seoul was a familiar tale: the empty streets, the one or two deserted trolleys that rocked forlornly along the main stem, the last tired oxen plodding patiently southward, were all sharply reminiscent of similar scenes in China. At week's end the wealthy, who could afford to wait until the last minute, were packing up to get out. In front of upper-class Korean houses and stores, merchants in beaver-collared coats supervised the loading of their more valued belongings. A beautiful girl...
Much of Second Threshold is written with Philip Barry's accustomed smoothness, his light talk glancing through the latticework of his troubled tale. The underlying theme is not new to Barry: more than once he pierced to the Puritan inside the worldling, the hair shirt beneath the dinner jacket. Barry was rather fascinated by the guilt that wouldn't come off the gingerbread. But in Second Threshold too much is not explained: Barry never really comes to grips with Bolton, nor Bolton with himself. And the play fishes in waters too dark to hook so flabby a solution...
...Thirteen Clocks, by James Thurber. A thoroughly satisfying fairy tale in which the prince and the princess outmaneuver the wicked Duke to an accompaniment of gleeps, glups, guggles and, possibly, inner meanings (TIME...
...Thirteen Clocks, by James Thurber. A thoroughly satisfying fairy tale in which the prince and the princess out-maneuver the wicked Duke to an accompaniment of gleeps, glups, guggles and, possibly, inner meanings (TIME...
...warmed the hearts of thousands of readers with her smoothly told little story about an English girl who wanted to become a jockey, her admirers have been waiting for another National Velvet. They got their first disappointment in 1938 when Novelist Bagnold published The Door of Life, a sentimental tale of childbirth. They are not likely to be much encouraged by her latest novel, an ambitious but brittle portrait of international nobility as it slowly succumbs to the ravages of death and taxes in postwar France...