Word: tales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tale for the Mirror, by Hortense Calisher. Human vagaries in exurbia and out of it. To be any good at all, short stories must be nearly perfect. These...
Billy Budd. Herman Melville's didactic tale has been transformed by Peter Ustinov-who directed the picture, helped write the script, and plays one of the leading roles-into a vividly affecting film...
...celebrated actor, and is still a staple of the Vienna Volkstheater. Now divorced, the couple in those days had a retreat at Berchtesgaden, where Romy (a contraction of Rose-Marie) was raised by grandparents. There she playacted alone before her mother's mirror in the fairy-tale house among the snow-laden Bavarian firs...
LITTLE OWL, by Reiner Zimnik, illustrated by Hanne Axmann (Atheneum; $3.50), is a translation from German of a tale about a peeping-owl. The illustrations convey with charm and mystery a mocking view of the foolish fears that isolate adults from the pleasant world of children and small animals...
...play is based on the "Clerk's Tale" in Chaucer. "A nobleman marries a simple peasant girl, and then tests her faithfulness by a series of tricks," Babe explained last night. "He takes away her two children, claims that because of the difference in their stations he cannot remain married to her, and so on, but she is unwilling to leave him. Chaucer has a happy ending, with a reunion. It doesn't quite happen that way in my version...