Word: tales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Manhattan's City Center, Marcel Marceau was for half the evening the superb solo mime he had proved before; in the second half, introducing his famous Compagnie de Mime, he performed movingly in a "mimodrama" of Gogol's The Overcoat. This igth century tale of an out-at-elbows clerk who for years toils obsessively to own a fine overcoat only, after an intoxicated moment of triumph, to be robbed of it, is one of literature's most surcharged parables, often with meanings beyond words. And without words Marceau at times approached those meanings as-against...
...rest of the characters wheeled out in Author Auchincloss' filigreed tale of a family fortune are only slightly more alive than Josiah. A lawyer by profession, Auchincloss probes with exasperating precision through the backgrounds and bankbooks of the five-generation descendants of one Julius Millinder. a tough-minded merchant who just happened to put together a $100 million fortune after the Civil War. Nothing the author finds suggests that the Millinder clan is worth the trouble. After Julius, the stock began to go to seed. One granddaughter marries a French prince-but not for love. A grandson is cuckolded...
...Edinburgh one night last week, a stocky, square-faced woman with a fiery glint in her eye strode determinedly into a performance of Sydney Goodsir Smith's The Wallace, one of the highlights of the Scottish capital's annual festival of music and drama. As the tale of Sir William Wallace's† wars with England ended and the orchestra broke into God Save the Queen, Scottish Nationalist Wendy Wood, 66. stayed in her seat and hissed. Then, while tweedy Englishmen and their sensibly shod wives, stared in amazement, Wendy led a scattering of supporters...
...author allows his hero only the beginnings of resignation. Wallant's book is a tour de force: what might seem a hopeless tale impresses by the clarity of its compassion...
...Gregor, a brisk, bitter account of teen-age Nazi conscripts, thrown into the suicidal campaign of 1945; Now and at the Hour, by Robert Cormier, the touching story of how death brings dignity to an obscure factory worker; To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, an uncommonly well-written tale about the irregular but effective education of the most appealing little Southern girl since Carson McCullers' Frankie; and The Paratrooper of Mechanic Avenue, by Lester Goran, more growing pains, but this time those of a less savory hero on the loose in a Pittsburgh slum...