Word: tales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Second Class Seaman Kennedy served aboard the newly commissioned destroyer Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. (named for his brother, who died in an airplane explosion over the English Channel). But though Joe died for his country in Europe, and Jack's heroism in the Solomons became a great wartime tale of the South Pacific, Bobby's naval service consisted of six dismal months in the Caribbean, spent mostly scraping paint, with no sign of the enemy...
...innocent small town boy, the clean-living Charles, who comes to Paris to study law and stays with his city cousin, Paul. Gerard Blain and Jean-Claude Brialy do their best to make these young men believable, but though there is somewhat more to the plot than the tale of the country mouse and the city mouse, there is not much more in the way of palpable characters...
...Britain before the Royal Ballet brought it to Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House, Ondine was freely adapted by Ashton himself from a fairy tale by German Writer Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué (1777-1843) describing the love of a water sprite for a mortal.* Although it bore all the marks of Ashton's familiarly gentle, classically oriented manner, it discarded the classical ballet conventions that appear in such Ashton successes as Cinderella and Sylvia. What he was trying to suggest, says Ashton, was "the ebb and flow of the sea: I aimed at an unbroken continuity...
...reputation in the theater as a ruthless perfectionist whose formula of pace plus "p-zazz" results in a hit nearly every time. This week he has set up out-of-town headquarters at the Ritz Hotel and the Shubert Theater during the pre-Broadway trial of Tenderloin, the tale of "the trial of a boy's soul" during New York...
People gave Thernstrom no chance to finish sentences. He began on foreign aid to India; someone asked him about Hungary. A sailor heckled him, told him how lucky he was to be in college, then launched into a tale of ten years in the Service...