Word: tales
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...acupuncture, originated under the reign of Huang-ti, the Yellow Emperor, who acceded to the thrown in 2704 B.C. A book called Huang Ti Nei Ching Su Wen (The Yellow Emperor's Classic on Internal Medicine), which was written around 400 A.D., relates many of the emperor's tales of acupuncture. One tale, for example, tells of a soldier who was hit with an arrow and noticed an improvement in an illness affecting a completely different part of his body...
Basically, The Longest Yard is a cynical, often brutal, crudely stated movie that blends two seemingly unmixable genres-the slice of sadistic prison life and the equally ancient tale of an underdog football team conquering impossible odds to win the Big Game...
...Morality Tale. If Novelist Murdoch is not playing for laughs, what is she up to? As the novel's title says explicitly, the author, who looked at love sentimentally in The Black Prince, is now coldly exploring its mechanistic aspect. In mockery she has made her central figure a psychologist, who supposedly manipulates the mind's mechanisms and who effects his cures by forming "love relationships" with his clients...
Except for the prehistory, Michener paces his narrative well. He organizes the book as a series of interconnected novellas, focusing each on one or two central characters. The tale of the shrewd French trapper Pasquinel and his Scottish partner McKeag becomes a roving chronicle of the West from St. Louis to the Rockies in the early fur-trading days. In a later set piece, Michener brings pageantry to the ancient cliché of the cattle drovers beset by thirst and outlaws on the long trail from Jacks-borough, Texas, to the South Platte...
...next week, however, Young's plan was torpedoed by hordes of freshman imitators who clambered up among the gargoyles at the appointed hour, to wreak their own vocal havoc. Another crisis was at hand, as the oral abominations of the mimics were now desolating the Yard and the tell-tale grade-point average was dipping again. On a cold night, again at 3:30 a.m., Young once more confronted the erstwhile howler and appealed to him to resume his daily yelp, but the young man refused to be compromised as an artist, and went on to lead a fulfilling life...