Word: tales
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Film Odyssey: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. This 1919 German silent directed by Robert Wiene is one of the few textbook classics that holds up as more than a curiosity piece. A lunatiesire-controlling-the-asylum tale with nordant echoes of disheaval in Weimar Germany. CHANNEL 2. Wednesday...
...derivatives (heroin and morphine), no drug has had a worse press than hashish. The resinous extract from the flower heads of female Indian hemp plants (Cannabis saliva) is five to ten times as potent as bulky, unrefined marijuana. Crusaders returning from the Holy Land brought back the tale that the chief of a Moslem sect used hashish to give fanatical courage to his hirelings before they set out on murder missions. Thus, from a corruption of hashshashin, they added the word assassin to the language. What has since been learned about hashish suggests that while the crusaders may have been...
...sightseers being guided around Cambridge, where one of the three-star attractions is Sir Fred Hoyle and his Institute for Theoretical Astronomy, are likely to be told a cautionary anecdote. It is the science don's equivalent of the Little Princes in the Tower. One day, goes the tale, a colleague rushed to Hoyle with the incomprehensible datum that variable star Alpha, though 1,000 times larger than star Beta, was pulsing 1,000 times faster. "Oh, but there's no mystery; the reason is obvious," said Hoyle, and proceeded to explain it. His colleague went away awed...
...Franz (Mazeppa) Liszt or Richard (Don Juan) Strauss, but rarely of Dvorak. A pity, since Dvorak, too, was a master of the genre. His subjects varied from The Watersprite to The Midday Witch, but he was never more magical than in The Golden Spinning Wheel. Recounting the fairy tale of a lovely spinning girl who pays somewhat gruesomely for a king's love, Dvorak filled his 26-minute score with bold slashes of color, rich turns of melody and moments of high dramatic point, all much to Conductor Kertesz's obvious relish. The Symphonic Variations, on the other...
...order guitar. Later he moved up to a $217 model purchased with money he earned working as a pew duster in an Episcopal church on Saturday nights. At 14 he began writing songs modeled after Hank Williams' why-don't-you-listen-while-I-tell-you-this-tale-of-woe style. At 24 he walked into one of the coffeehouses in Chicago's Old Town district and sang in public for the first time. "People were very responsive," he recalls. "If they hadn't been, I'd of never done it again...