Word: tales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...real problem," said one junior, "is that Freidel [Frank Freidel, professor of History] devotes all his time to refuting prejudices his audience does not hold. The lecture series might better be called 'Negro Heroes I Have Known'--it consists of black equivalents of the George Washington cherry tree tale...
...Faust," Corsaro admits. "In fact, I've started off by basically disliking every opera that I've done so far. They all seemed like such old salami." But as he began thinking about it, he became fascinated with the prospect of doing Faust as a grim Gothic tale in which sheer horror and grizzly humor intertwine. He decided to introduce Mephistopheles in different guises that would fit credibly into each scene. After materializing first as a cadaver, the Devil appears later as a gypsy fortuneteller, then Don Juan, then a soldier of fortune. Next, Corsaro threw...
...Each year the library visiting committee met with us, and each year we told our sad tale. One year, a particular Harvard graduate had written a history of the Supreme Court. He himself was a lawyer. He was particularly well fitted to be long, verbose, tiresome, and pompous. When we told him, as the new chairman of our committee, that we wanted a rare books library, he became indignant and said he thought it was a very poor use of money. In fact, he thought that rare books were utterly useless, and as far as he was concerned, he would...
ISABEL. Another tale of a terrified young lady, this Canadian-made film stars Geneviève Bujold as a rapidly maturing adolescent haunted by the all-too-real ghosts of her past...
This moral terrain, though fascinating, is often overwrought in literature. And Davidson's low-key philosophic inquiry, conducted in a wonderfully conversational tone and decked out with the trappings of an international suspense tale, runs the risk of seeming schematic or frivolous. He produces a rich victim of Nazi terror who, it turns out, may not be dead after all. The story deals in breathless comings and goings across the Central Europe of today and yesterday-yesterday in this case being 1939, just before Hitler's "final solution" was set in motion. Davidson detours into the painfully recollected...