Word: tales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tale Tellers...
...Erving Goffman describes in his book Asylums. One student still tells anecdotes about the people he met. Another said, "You could have great times there. People sat around reading I Never Promised You a Rose Garden and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. There were some great tall-tale tellers...
...Harvard basketball were a fairy tale then last night's game against Brown at the IAB--Floyd Wilson's third-to-last as coach--would have ended with the Crimson on the long end of the final 66-60 score. But Harvard basketball is not a fairy tale...
...consider Violetta, or Sigmund, or even the sadistic Turandot a familiar acquaintance, or even a friend, few can cozy up to Hans Werner Henze's heroes and heroines. In The Young Lord, the hero turns out to be an extremely well-trained monkey, and the moral of the tale seems to be that the modern world is so fad-conscious that people will imitate practically anyone with a social passport, even if he is an ape in disguise. It might sound like comedy, but the work is filled with bitter misery. Henze has said: "This music fashions...
...played. The enameled design on a 14th century French cruet shows figures playing a game with sticks and a stone or ball, and there are historians who claim that the field variety originated in ancient Greece or Persia. The actual name hockey was born, so goes one tale, when French explorers pushing into the St. Lawrence Valley in 1740 came upon a band of Iroquois Indians whacking away at an object-and each other-with murderous-looking sticks and shrieking "Ho-gee! Ho-gee!" The word, as it turned out, meant "It hurts...