Word: tales
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...paper that he read to the convention, Dr. Michael Brody, a child psychiatrist from Washington, D.C., analyzed Disney's favorite stories as classic Freudian cases. The tale of the three little pigs demonstrates the "virtues of obsessiveness": the little oinker that builds his house of bricks shows his superiority over his less obsessive brothers and the big bad wolf. Brody cites the bobsled ride around the Matterhorn at Disneyland as an example of a means of mastering castration anxieties and other fears. Freud and Disney, concluded Brody, were both concerned with fantasy, and they both looked to childhood...
...wife, Sarah Lawrence Graduate Hope Cooke, became "Queen of the Happy Valley" and "Consort of Deities." Together they pledged to make the tiny storybook kingdom "a paradise on earth." They also hoped to make Sikkim, an Indian protectorate since 1950, more economically and politically independent. That was a fairy tale not to be. Last week India's Parliament voted to make Sikkim India's 22nd state. It was the last act of a sequence that saw Sikkim's 300-year-old monarchy abolished, and the once internationally glamorous King and Queen of Sikkim become...
Since that is what the Dancekings dream of and since this movie is a kind of folk tale, W.W. is able to make good on his promise. Before that happens, there are adventures on the road, including some comical chasing around in cars, an inventive assault on a drive-in bank, and a testy love affair between W.W. and the group's lead singer (Conny Van Dyke). There is also a reasonably subtle examination of a shifting relationship between band and interloper...
Adams begins his tale with an epigraph from Jung: "Superstition and accident manifest the will of God." Perhaps, but not here. The author spins out his romance entertainingly, but without dealing seriously with the questions he raises: of belief and its perversion, of authority and its corruption. Good as he is at nature walks, Adams does not venture far into the forests of the mind...
This year's winners were typical of that diversity. In fiction, the split award went to a traditional academic novel, Thomas Williams' The Hair of Harold Roux, and Robert Stone's Dog Soldiers, a savage morality tale that moves as fast as a whodunit and finds a nihilistic link between the Viet Nam War and the drug culture. The arts and letters award was shared by Lewis Thomas' The Lives of a Cell, a meditation on the structure of all living matter, and Roger Shattuck's life of Marcel Proust. For the recently created category...