Word: tales
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Perhaps the most famous comet tale was written by Futurist H.G. Wells. In his 1906 novel In the Days of the Comet, the earth was enveloped in a mysterious green gas from a comet's tail just as war broke out between England and France. The vapors had so beneficent an effect that the combatants fell asleep for three hours, awoke to a world without war and began building a Utopia of socialism and love. In contrast, there is the bleak view of Psychologist turned Amateur Geophysicist Immanuel Velikovsky. In his bestselling 1950 book Worlds in Collision-which...
What sets McMullen's documentary apart, turns it into a cautionary tale the impact of which is close to tragic, is its central figure, William W. Keeler, 65, who retired earlier this year as Phillips' chairman and chief executive officer. Like every Phillips leader before him, he had devoted his entire life to the company and to the search for his room at the top, sacrificing most of the pleasures of family and leisure along the way. McMullen picks him up a few months before retirement, as he undertakes his last major task for Phillips: making smooth...
More profound alterations can be seen in The Frog King, known popularly as The Princess and the Golden Ball. It is the tale of the repulsive frog who retrieves the little lady's toy from a pond on condition that she take him back to the palace to share her plate and bed. In many modern versions, the standoffish princess eventually kisses the frog, who instantly becomes a handsome, marriageable prince. In the original, the brat smashes the frog against a wall, and the bridegroom springs magically from the breakage. This is obviously not a sentimental story with...
...Sweaty Tales. It does not take much of a scholar to see that this tale contains handcrafted versions of the mythical phoenix rising from its ashes and even the mystical rites of transubstantiation. But common to all fairy tales is the happy ending. In The Story of One Who Set Out to Study Fear, ignorance is bliss if it enables the hero to overcome terrors from which wiser men would flee. In Hans My Hedgehog, ugliness is a curse to be broken by magic. In Pitcher's Feathered Bird and Brother Gaily, cleverness and sharp practice can outwit...
...make whole what Shakespeare halved into tragedy and romance "The Winter's Tale" needs a bit more life than one mettest with...