Word: tales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...days after Grover Cleveland was nominated for the presidency in 1884, the Buffalo Telegraph revealed in a lead article, headlined "A Terrible Tale," that Cleveland was the father of the nine-year-old son of Maria Crofts Hatpin, a widow. Cleveland did not deny...
...both arrogant and stupid in thinking that he could suppress the truth indefinitely by libel suits. (In fact, he sued Paris-Match for libel and collected out of court from Italy's Tempo Illustrato).) Besides, Ward began to talk, and to Labor M.P. George Wigg he unfolded a tale, as Wilson described it in the Commons, that "took the lid off a corner of the London underworld-vice and dope, marijuana, blackmail and counter-blackmail, violence, petty crime." Added Wilson gratuitously: "If Ward's statement had been published as a fiction paperback in America, it would have seemed...
Feiffer's stylized fairy tale can be read, some of the time, as light summer fiction. It is studded with scenes of cheerfully skin-deep satire and divertingly chuckleheaded dialogue. But occasionally Feiffer's laughter comes close to a stifled cry of anguish-in a way that has not been matched since Nathanael West's Miss Lonelyhearts took to heart the troubles reflected in his advice-to-the-lovelorn column, and was destroyed by acute compassion...
...Venice, but none of them, neither Titian nor Tintoretto, Giorgione nor even Francesco Guardi, to judge from their work, took so much delight in the sights and sounds of that city as did Vittore Carpaccio. He obviously loved Venice's busy canals, its processions and pageantry, its fairy-tale architecture-almost every aspect of the place, in fact, down to the brightness of its gondoliers' jerkins and the workmanship of a beautifully wrought bolt on a door. Last week Venice returned the compliment by opening in the Doge's Palace the biggest Carpaccio exhibition ever held...
...come charging out of the acetate jungle and gobble up millions of dollars. It was bound to be a superspectacle. But as such might it not prove as memorable as Gone With the Wind? Or, at a minimum, as competent as Ben-Hurl Might it not tell a grand tale in the grand manner and illuminate old legend with...