Word: tales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...simple as to be almost nonexistent is Beckett's tale of two penniless, hapless, smelly tramps waiting, in a barren countryside, for a neighborhood personage named Godot. They chatter, gnaw carrots, tug at a tight shoe, talk of going separate ways and of hanging themselves, encounter a rich, unhappy magnate driving his servant before him as with whips. At the end of Act 1, a boy arrives to say that Godot cannot come that night but will the next. The next night, after further waiting and talking, a boy arrives to say that again Godot cannot come. As before...
...Swan. For those not invited to the wedding-a pretty, witty fairy tale, written by Ferenc Molnar, in which Grace Kelly is won by middle-aged Prince Charming Alec Guinness (Time, April...
...convent-educated Francoise Sagan* dashed off her first novel, Bonjour Tristesse, in a summer month in 1953 after flunking out of the Sorbonne ("With my family angry at me, I had to do something"), she became one of Europe's fastest-selling, most controversial authors. The limpidly written tale of 17-year-old Cecile (a year younger than the authoress), who maneuvers her father's two mistresses to meet her own needs and causes the suicide of one, quickly became France's biggest bestseller (450,000 copies). Translated into 14 languages, it won the Prix des Critiques...
...Certain Smile is another tale of extramarital fun and games, this time between a teen-ager named Dominique, who leaves her schoolboy beau, and his suave, older, married uncle. Smile in its first month had four printings of a whopping 250,000 copies, already seems assured of outstripping even the success of Tristesse. Wags are suggesting that the certain smile shines from the face of Rene Julliard, her publisher. It will be brought out in the U.S. in August by Dutton...
...same day and on the same side of the Conneticut River, the Yardlings stumbled through a bruising 9-5 loss to Andover Academy. The Yardlings played "very well" but Andover's 13 fouls (against six for the Crimson) told the tale of big bad muscle...