Word: tales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gossiping mothers and children, the gnarled figures of the aged and ill-as her models. But it was such highly dramatic events as Germany's Peasants' War, the 1840 Silesian Weavers' Revolt and the women's dance around the guillotine inspired by Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities that gave her the subjects to express her greatest themes. Kaiser Wilhelm II called her work "art of the gutter," refused to award her a gold medal...
...Swan. A pretty, witty fairy tale, written by Ferenc Molnar, in which Grace Kelly is won by middle-aged Prince Charming Alec Guinness (TIME, April...
Lint off the Mind. Straws in an ill wind, and then came the last straw: crime. Or was it punishment? Only a close reader of this closely written tale will be able to tell. The author does not scissor the story neatly out of whole cloth to a preconceived pattern; she rather lets the story woolgather its facts, like lint, off the top of Milt's mind. Milt's mind, it is true, often seems a mighty dull place to spend 310 pages, but even the dullness has its fierce effect. Without it, the author could hardly convey...
...major virtue of this issue is that the editors have resisted the temptation to pad a thin issue with bad material. All of the stories are competently written, but none of the authors seem to have any more pressing concern than telling a sensual tale, which means that the reader can put down the issue on any particular sentence without feeling the slightest regret, but that, on the other hand, he may pick it up again without severe foreboding...
...claim to draw its reader onward. Yet it achieves this only in the narrative. The technical ease of "how to catch a shark" seems to suit the author and the protagonist, which the stream of consciousness soliloquy at the beginning certainly does not. If Davidson can find a tale which talks through its own logic instead of requiring attempts to explain outside the narrative, he may well become a really successful story-teller. At present, however, his story compels you to read until, arriving at the end, you find that there is nothing there but supper...