Word: tales
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other hand, he introduced me to a political science teacher, a smiling, unpretentious, gentle-seeming man with a doleful tale of student criticism. "I used to not take much account of specific students, and they criticized me," he said. "Some in class, some after class, some with posters. And a sharp ideological struggle took place in my mind, should I correct this or not? And now with the help of the students I have made some progress..." And anyway the athlete didn't typify the young people we met. Most of them seemed closer to Mao's basic quotation...
...dreck of Tom O'Horgan's grimagination. Just to offer one example, his notion of enhancing a song like When I'm Sixty-Four is to have two doddering floor-to-ceiling puppets paw lewdly at each other. As for plot, he tells a fragmentary tale of a Candide-like rock singer, Billy Shears (Ted Neeley), who meets and marries Strawberry Fields (Kay Cole)-the characters are christened from Beatles' songs. But Billy loses her to death and his own integrity to Maxwell's Silver Hammermen, Jack (Allan Nicholls), Sledge (William Parry) and Claw...
Otherwise, The Ebony Tower is a book as lovely as its dust jacket?Pisanello's Portrait of a Lady. The retold tale of Eliduc, a 12th century Celtic romance, charmingly repeats the story of a knight torn between his love for a princess and his loyalty to his wife. A story called Poor Koko tells of a sort of casual Marxist burglar who amiably loots the guesthouse where a pedantic writer is staying, then, like a Manson of letters, coolly destroys the writer's notes and manuscript for a book about Thomas Love Peacock, a 19th century writer of burlesque...
...writer appears once again in today's Crimson. In a large advertisement on page eight of this issue, the Brothers Gallo take credit for forming the United Farmworkers' union, for bringing Cesar Chavez to power, and for defending both in the face of opposition from other grape growers--a tale many might regard as at least as fanciful as they style in which it is written...
...tale has weight because his life and history intersected. Although he stayed behind, Nate Shaw watched the migration of blacks away from the rural South and into the factories and cities of the North. As intimately as anybody has, he tells why they left. But All God's Dangers is most valuable for its picture of pure courage. Knowing he was ridiculed and despised, aware that whites would frustrate his plans, Shaw simply went ahead, surrounded by a shell of pride. He wonders where this grit came from, recognizes that his nature welled up from something deeper than race...