Word: tales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spent on a road linking Luangprabang and Vientiane, which proved to be under water half the year. It got paved for only eight miles out of Vientiane-to the tennis court of a former Defense Minister. There was, said an investigator for the International Cooperation Administration, "an almost fairy-tale implausibility" about the transactions. Stately homes and Mercedes cars blossomed along the dusty streets of Vientiane...
...Caucasian Chalk Circle was written during Brecht's exile during the early '40s, and was based upon Klabund's adaptation of a Chinese folk tale (The Chalk Circle), well known to the Berlin theater public twenty years before. Drifting gradually from the original version, Brecht crafted an original story of his own, by creating Azdak, a village scribe, who as an exradical retains a blend of disenchantment and idealism...
Professor Homer set forth a brief analysis of how the modern historian employs mythical research element. Distinguishing between scientifically stimulating myth" and "improbable religious myth" he scoffed at the folk tale of all the animals descended from a male and female of each species set aside in a special bomb shelter during these prehistoric times. He also questioned the religious doctrine that the basic freezing, and radioactive crust represents God's place of punishment...
Raditzer, by Peter Matthiessen. Writing with an incisiveness that recalls Conrad, Novelist Matthiessen tells a harsh tale of parasite and host-the one a whining Navy goldbricker, the other a strong and decent...
...Tale. Living in retirement in Rome, Parsons began an investigation of the Etruscans two years ago. He talked to dealers around town: "There are no secrets in Rome. It's the most gossipy city in the world." He kept hearing the name of a certain Alfredo Fioravanti. Fioravanti, who is just Parsons' age, was eking out a living as a repairman of antiques and jewelry. Parsons got to know him well, and in time had his story...