Word: tales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...French newspapers happily embroidered the tale. They recalled darkly that on April 4, 1960, two months after he was kicked out of De Gaulle's Cabinet for his ultra sympathies, Jacques Soustelle had had lunch in Washington with CIA's Deputy Director Richard Bissell. Some papers went on to charge that CIA agents had met with the plotters in Madrid ten days before the coup, that they had known all the plans but had kept Kennedy and Ambassador Gavin in the dark...
...Such a tale would have power, even if clumsily told; but here it is narrated with control, economy, taste. Director Bernhard Wicki simply sets the brutal facts in a clear light, lets the audience look at them, makes only one laconic comment: "The events in this story happened in 1945. Two days later the warm Europe ended...
...best back-alley art: Under Milk Wood, a fresh retelling of life in the village Dylan Thomas waggishly named Llareggub; Call Me by My Rightful Name, an astringent tale of racial misfits by New Playwright Michael Shurtleff; The American Dream, Edward Albee's effective dissection of modern man; The Connection, a relentless study of narcotics and nihilists; The Zoo Story, another Albee commentary, wedded to Samuel Beckett's monologue, Krapp's Last Tape; In the Jungle of Cities, Bertolt Brecht's intriguing early effort; Hedda Gabler, an excellent production of the Ibsen classic; and the durable...
...Odyssey. Robert Fitzgerald translates into the crisp, demotic argot of today the tale of wily Odysseus...
...describe, in mere prose, the delightful abandon of The Other Young Man--A Class Day Romance or the stern moral of The Knobby Sophomore. There are witty tours de force, such as The Episode, (It was the plump conductor,/On the Friday-night last car,/Who told the tale I now rehearse,/When proffered a cigar.) For more substantial fare, the reader might prefer A Yarn, which contains such stanzas as the following: For six long weeks we drifted on, we had nor food nor water; /We ate the cook, we ate the mate, we ate the captain's daughter...