Word: tales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Loves Me is head over heels in love with love. The musical's springtime sweethearts are Barbara Cook and Daniel Massey, son of Raymond, Carol Haney's dance spoofs and the Sheldon Harnick-Jerry Bock score keep this romantic fairy tale spinning gaily...
Even Radio Peking seemed unable to swallow the idea of hostile attack, announcing only that the government was "attaching great importance" to the sinking. The tone of the broadcast suggested that whatever face the skipper had saved in Japan with his torpedo tale would be quickly dissipated once he came back to face the music in Tsingtao...
Amphitryon 38 is a delightfully adulterous story about gods as gods, gods as mortals, gods as lovers, and woman as Goodness. The Lowell House Drama Group's production of Giraudoux's retelling of the Amphitryon myth (supposedly the 38th version of the tale), while often sloppy and heavy, maintains much of the warmth and high spirit of the script, and is very funny...
...writer. A taste of Wall Street drove him back to Yale to teach, and at 40 he became one of the university's youngest and most respected full professors. One day in 1950, he lunched in Manhattan with a college-president friend, heard out a tale of woe, and after the meal told his wife: "Thank God we're not in that racket!" The same morning, unknown to him, the Yale Corporation had named Whitney Griswold president, Yale's youngest in modern times...
Profoundly blasphemous, searingly angry, Ega de Queiroz' chronicle of the tragedy that follows is at once a chilling morality tale and a corrosive indictment of the priest-ridden society of Portugal in the 1860s. The book was written in 1871, but Queiroz had his troubles getting it published. After it finally appeared in 1874, it was inevitably put on the Index. But by the time Queiroz, a patrician career diplomat as well as author, died in 1900, he was recognized not only as Portugal's first realistic novelist but his country's greatest writer of prose. Widely...