Word: tales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Zuckmayer's true tale springs from the celebrated saga of Wilhelm Voigt, a turn-of-the-century cobbler who lived near Koepenick, a little town eight miles from
There is a tale making the slow rounds about the Art of Henry James. James, it goes, constructed a great Gothic Cathedral of his craft. Beneath the arches and between the pews our heels clatter and our voices echo. But upon arriving at the altar (so says the story) we discover a dead...
...delighted to read Editor Mortimer Smith's outcry against pre-chewed classics [July 7]. I am with him right down the line. To learn that the opening sentence of A Tale of Two Cities has been deleted is tragic. When reading to children I have felt it was good to go over their heads if possible. How else are they going to learn new words and tastes...
Author Hubbard's tale is subtitled A Ridiculous Novel, and so it is, in a farcically amusing way. It tells how Psychiatrist Durrant-Atwill, displaying zeal above and beyond the couch, arranges the kidnaping of a famed British conductor on his way to a continental music festival, enabling George Conway to palm himself off on the foreign orchestra as the great man himself, and to scourge the players through many a furious rehearsal. It ends happily ever after with Uncle George not only promoted to Assistant Secretary to the Ministry but also appointed official "guest-conductor" to Europe...
...will probably be a long time before another fine production of The Winter's Tale comes along. Verbum sapientibus...