Word: tales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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FIDDLER ON THE ROOF. Zero Mostel gives body to a spirited hit musical derived from Sholom Aleichem's tale of Tevye and his five daughters, their joys and troubles in a czarist Russian village. Mostel will be replaced by Luther Adler...
...instrument of terror and repression than a gigantic cobweb of cliche. Particularly to the generation that has reached voting (or at least debating) age since the early coups and crises of the postwar era, the sounds of struggle appear almost as irrelevant and unreal as fragments of a horror tale recollected from childhood. Many of their elders see Communism in the confused, self-doubting terms that have characterized the recent wave of academic protest over Viet Nam and Santo Domingo. "Is it up to us to say who is a Communist and who is not?" asks Anatol Rapoport...
...HIGH WIND IN JAMAICA. A crew of pirates led by a reprobate captain (Anthony Quinn) falls under the spell of seven seemingly innocent children whose adventures have all the fun and much of the fury of Richard Hughes's quasi-classic tale...
...Stephen Hunter, their long awaited red-letter day turns out to be a nightmare: Stephen is impotent except when he is asleep. The result is that everybody suffers the penalties of adulterous anguish without ever tasting any of its furtive thrills in this drab, oddly flat, moral tale, and Camp's followers to the end are left to sigh with Sarah's spouse: "The world would be a far happier place if people weren't always analyzing their motives and ventilating their complexes...
Prayer for Redemption. Author Tertz's aim is "to be truthful with the aid of the absurd and the fantastic." In his Orwellian fairy tale, Tertz twits Stalin and the cult of personality, Khrushchev and the cult of propaganda, the military mind, the herd instinct, and all the dizzy isms of contemporary Soviet life. He is intensely critical of human arrogance and folly, yet somehow views it all with detachment, as if from another point...