Word: tales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wyss piously proclaimed his tale to be a tract intended to teach children "how blessed are the results of patient continuance in well-doing." What he actually wrote was a sort of sissified, Swissified Tarzan story, describing a number of innocently improbable adventures that took place on an amusingly improbable tropical island populated with an absolutely absurd fauna of Asiatic tigers, African lions, Australian kangaroos, Amazonian anacondas, North American grouse, Mongolian asses and Swiss prigs...
What's more, while Todd's picture had a clear, suspenseful story by Jules Verne, Pepe has only an oft-told Hollywood tale that was never worth telling in the first place. Plot: Hollywood has-been (Dailey) can't find money or nerve to make picture. Loyal stooge (Cantinflas) wins money at Las Vegas. Heroine (Jones) supplies nerve. Picture is hit. Boy gets girl. Cantinflas gets horse-a pretty white stallion, which turns in the second-best performance in the picture. Cantinflas turns in the best...
...World War II pilot who lost both legs in a crash and lived to fly again, after a harrowing, 17-day crawl behind enemy lines (enacting this scene, the opera's hero sings flat on his belly). With the composer and his wife themselves adapting the tale, the entire effort seems to have been embarrassing and painful to Prokofiev. As he had promised, he did weave a number of tuneful folk motifs into his usual sophisticated, modernist composition, even included a vintage Red army marching song. But the composer seemed somehow unable to conceal his treasonable pessimism and basic...
...LAST OF THE JUST, by André Schwarz-Bart. Through one family, a bitter, largely self-taught first novelist follows the unrelenting horror of anti-Semitism from medieval England to Hitler's Germany. The author's grim tale belies his dictum: "To be a Jew is impossible...
Village of the Damned. The nifty little horror tale of an English town whose populace is briefly paralyzed, its women mysteriously impregnated...