Word: tales
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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ADAMS HOUSE JCR. Concert. Henry Shapiro, pianist, Masako Ynagita, violinist. Susan Salm, cellist. Beethoven Cello Sonata op. 102, no. 1, Janacek, Fairy Tale for Cello and Piano, Ravel, Duo for Violin and Cello, and Beethoven Trio...
Foreign Correspondent. (1940) Intriguing Hitchcock suspense tale set at the start of the Second World War. Stars Joel McCrea and Laraine...
Americans sometimes seem almost eager to believe the most dismal stories about themselves, particularly stories of bad Samaritanism, of cries for help going ignored by an alienated citizenry. Last week the Associated Press sent out on its wires a lugubrious tale about a Wyoming motorist who was found in his car by the side of the road, shot dead with his own .22 pistol. His suicide note sounded desperate: "I have been waiting eleven hours for someone to stop. I can't stand the cold any longer and they just keep passing me by." The item was immediately picked...
Postulate a neurotic, hopeless main character, then spend 200 pages proving that the character is hopeless and neurotic. Occasionally a novelist succeeds with such an attenuation of the obvious. Joan Didion did, after a fashion, with Play It As It Lays. In this sour, stunted, perfunctory tale of a numbed rich boy, Jerzy Kosinski does...
...succeeds because he has clearly had experience with the proverbial condition of "Edge City." He knows about the brink and the abyss, and he cares passionately about bringing this book to birth. He never labors his allegory, or cheapens his surrealism into fairy tale moralism. The method is a radical one, paradoxically, in that it hearkens back to an earlier age of the novel (and this must be a good thing) by working with the intensity of dramatic scenes--a throwback to Dostoyevsky. By taking diverse experience and building situations wherein he can forge these loose elements into a crystallized...