Word: tales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tale of Two K.s. Red China's economic dislocations are closely related to its dialectical split with the Soviet Union...
...much as the Pentagon believes the U.S. needs for a three-year war. An investigation of stockpiling by a Senate Armed Services subcommittee has indicated that efforts to cut the surplus were blocked by Government agencies, pressure from industry, and downright inefficiency. Last week the subcommittee was told a tale, involving both the Eisenhower and Kennedy Administrations, of four metals...
Falla conceived of La Atlantida as his life's masterwork. a Spanish Parsifal, throbbing with epic Wagnerian themes and massive Wagnerian thunder. He took his title and story from the Catalonian epic by Jacinto Verdaguer-a tale of the lost continent of Atlantis, destroyed for its sins, and of Spain preserved to export Christianity to the New World...
Spreading Graves. By this point the reader sees that Novelist Singer, beginning his account amid cow dung and human bestiality, has subtly led his tale away from the kind of reality that is composed of what is probable and what is worldly. As the novel continues, it is legend. Wanda dies in childbirth, and her screams reveal her as a Gentile. Jacob is arrested, but escapes and travels with his infant son to Palestine. In his old age, Jacob returns to the village where Wanda died. He finds that her bones, buried in unconsecrated ground, have been surrounded by spreading...
Based on the tale from Genesis, Noah gave glimpses of Stravinsky at his best -his music speaking with the incisiveness of the century's most famed composer...