Word: tales
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Norman Mailer once admitted quite frankly that he had never read Virginia Woolf. Not only that, he would presumably prefer Jayne to Katherine Mansfield ("I doubt if there will be a really exciting woman writer," he once said, "until the first whore becomes a call girl and tells her tale"), and he has probably never even heard of Kate Chopin. Considering his utter lack of knowledge about women writers, his declaration about Lawrence is more than arrogant; it is nonsense...
...shooting, wrestling, dalliance, dance, all set down in minute and ceremonious detail. Fukae Roshū's Pass Through Mount Utsu, with its flattened, stylized mountain, green hills and brilliant red ivy tendrils hung against a spaceless ground of gold leaf, comes from a 10th century travel diary, the Tale of Ise. The voyaging hero has just given a mendicant priest a poem to take to a "lady in the capital...
...Bread and Puppet Theater is rather like waiting in the mystic whispering groves of Delphi to hear the oracle speak. Despite the primordial trappings, this virtual dumb show is as contemporary as tomorrow's bombing raid. It is a cantata of death, an immensely sad and strangely affecting tale of the wartime slaughter of innocents...
...fact, Evan Hunter's apparently modest suspense tale is about quite a different sort of assassination plot. It works as well as it does because the academics he portrays are teasingly out of character in their commitment to violence, yet touched by an anger and frustration now frighteningly familiar. It would be unfair to Hunter and his readers to reveal his sleight-of-hand device. But the result is an intriguing handicapper's book, a second-guessing game of truth and its consequences...
...however, is only one feather on the American Imperial Eagle. The U. S. supports the racist regime in South Africa because of that country's vast gold and uranium deposits. And the story of United Fruit and Guatemala is an oft-told tale (sad but true). The list goes on, but the point should be clear...