Word: tales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Texas tale by J. Frank Dobie...
...long the reigning ballerina of the Western world. Since they teamed up on the stage of the Royal Ballet three seasons ago, a mystique has grown up around them that rivals the most ethereal fantasies they portray onstage. They have about them all the magic makings for a fairy-tale romance. He is 27, a moody, mysterious Tartar bristling with savage charm. She is 45, an alabaster beauty of elegant refinement. He is the glittering young prince in the first bloom of creative life. She is the dying swan in the last flutter of a shining career...
...close friend of Helen Keller, the author said that she has a "special feeling for Radcliffe, because of the picture I have of a blind, denf and dumb girl passing its examinations. No fairy tale was ever more heroic...
Operation Crossbow, shifting to the European front, distorts the facts about an actual wartime crisis to fit a ludicrous tale of espionage. At the outset, the film seeks to establish its authenticity by popping in at 10 Downing Street, where Prime Minister Churchill (Patrick Wymark) asks Duncan Sandys (Richard Johnson) to head Operation Crossbow, an Anglo-American unit assigned to pinpoint and destroy Germany's V-1 buzz-bomb and V-2 rocket projects. Director Michael Anderson sedately re-creates some rather tumultuous sessions of British officialdom in 1943, reducing history to a few thoughtful demurrers from Churchill...
Charming Croc. Sam, the central figure of the tale, is "a tall, yellow-haired, red-faced man with sparkling, self-satisfied eyes and a kind of religious mouth." Born poor, he has risen to some modest eminence in the U.S. Department of the Interior. Sam the Bold he calls himself, but in fact he is pitifully afraid of life. He hates his wife because she will not be his mother, fears the world because it does not accord him the homage he feels he deserves. To compensate for these afflictions, Sam shamelessly uses his six children. He says he loves...