Word: tales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Never on Sunday. A seeming reroast of an old chestnut-the tale of reformer being reformed himself by a warmhearted prostitute-ends up a savory satire full of animal spirits and earthy humor. Director Jules (He Who Must Die) Dassin also plays the overgrown American boy scout, opposite mercurial Melina Mercouri's invincible Greek strumpet...
Come Dance With Me is the intricate tale of a young Parisienne's attempts to clear her husband of a murder charge by nudging the gendarmes along what she thinks to be the proper course to justice. Whom she is accusing depends on how much of the movie has elapsed, since in its two hours she manages to suspect and unsuspect a sizable number of the cast...
During his decade as Boylston Professor, MacLeish has written four more plays. In The Trojan Horse (1952) he turned Homer's tale into a tragic and powerful parable about McCarthyism and the destructive force of fear and unreason. He specifically authorized its production without scenery, or over the radio. This Music Crept By Me Upon the Waters (1953), a comedy about five couples who have withdrawn from the banalities of the business world to a "paradise" in the Antilles, does not succeed; its obscurities prevent it from working on the stage...
Tomorrow is Veteran's Day and the CRIMSON will not publish. In lieu of Cambridge's only breakfast daily we recommend Roots of Heaven to the early riser. This novel by Romain Gary is an allegorical tale of the massacre of elephants. It chronicles the end of an era, the end of a once-proud species...
...Sabres of Paradise, by Lesley Blanch. A true Arabian Nights tale of 19th century Russia's subjugation of unruly Caucasus tribesmen, replete with high-bouncing feats of battlefield and seraglio...