Word: tales
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...enigmas without revealing a single motive for her crime. The plaints she registers against the cousin-housekeeper are that she was silent, efficient, clean, ate and slept well, and "was too fat for the house." This is rather like the killer in Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart, who murdered his victim because he could not stand his clouded blue eye. With power and wonder, both Poe and Duras show us that an act may be most distinctively human and lifelike precisely because it is logically motiveless...
...opera is remarkably powerful. All melody pared to its bare essentials, Janáček'a music illuminates Čapek's bizarre tale with a cold, exciting glare. Characters declaim in energetic syllables that leap from one end of their voices to the other, too tense to lapse into song. The orchestra vibrates with intense color and rhythm, microscopically reflective of each dramatic subtlety...
...Mather House sophomore breaks into his own tale of the drop-out pusher who has settled into his living room and now brings a steady parade of townies...
...that plasmas offer the only practical means of attaining the enormous temperatures (630 million degrees F.) needed for controlled nuclear fusion. Restlessly, Alfvén has already expanded into other fields: cosmology (the universe, he contends, is made up of equal quantities of matter and antimatter), science fiction (The Tale of the Big Computer), music (the book for a data-technology opera) and space planning (he is currently campaigning for an unmanned mission to one of the asteroids). His main interest now is investigating how planets are born...
...bliss with Conrad. Conrad himself mercy awaits the chance to murder the heiress and her parents, to propel him openly into prominence and wealth as savior of the Ornstein dynasty. Barbarian blood, as the old historical axiom goes, refreshes the withered, in-bred stock of effete aristocrats. In fairy-tale fashion, all who have survived live happily ever after...