Word: tales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...relaxing Senate tensions when he speaks. He was still a freshman member of the Senate when, in 1954, the bitter Senate debate over the censure of Republican Joe McCarthy came up. At one point, when Senators seemed about to come to blows, Ervin arose. He told a typical tale about Uncle Ephraim. The poor old fellow had been tortured for years by arthritis. He was bent double as he sat in church one Sunday. The mountain preacher asked various members of the congregation what the Lord had done for them. All replied, in self-satisfying detail. Then the preacher pointed...
...month salary he had been promised, Mrs. Felzer fretted over the $10,000 she had paid Chinn Ho as a binder on the big deal. Said Wheeler-Dealer Ho wonderingly: "It's like a fairy story." Echoed Sheraton's Henderson: "An Arabian Nights tale. I have thought of 20 different explanations for all this, but they are all too fantastic for belief." The only unfazed veteran of the episode was Sammy Amalu, who confidently announced that he planned to 1) raise his $6,500 bail; 2) beat the bad check rap; and 3) fly on to Switzerland. Said...
...last week's new works - Eight Instrumental Miniatures - seemed to confirm that impression. Consisting of "recomposed" material from 1921. his Miniatures were charming, light, mellow and infinitely adroit, but they did little more than sound echoes of such early Stravinsky triumphs as The Soldier's Tale...
...years he has been University coach and has named this the year to turn the trick. "We've been preparing for the Princeton game all season," he said, "and now we're ready for them." Saturday's game at 2 p.m. on the Business School Field will tell the tale...
Daniel Eigerman leads the return to competence with the opening chapter of his unpublished novel, Heartboy. Eigerman writes smooth, rhythmic sentences; he had a flair for dialogue that builds his characters and has begun a tale that promises to be intriguing. Quite pleasantly, Heartboy does not smack of self-analysis; Eigerman has a story to tell and he tells it, without any unneeded verbiage or Angst...