Word: tales
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Freshman proctors traditionally tell their charges they could be expunged for stealing books from the University's libraries. Nobody seems to have told Jeff Nelson, a graduate student in American History, that tale. Over the last year, Nelson allegedly has managed to remove over 3000 volumes from Widener and other libraries into his office in Van Serg Hall. A University decision on how to treat the case is expected this week...
...nonfiction. Rarely, however, does a good political novel so closely tread the path of reality that it becomes a roman a clef which by its publication may influence the outcome of an upcoming election. The bleeding of real campaigns and easily identifiable political figures, composing a gripping tale and simultaneously making an explicit political statement, are what set The Shad Treatment apart from most political novels and make it worth reading...
Nonetheless, what sets the book apart from other current bestsellers is its eerie believability. Out of reams of newspaper and magazine clippings, chats with former banking cronies, Middle East experts and even a nuclear physicist, Erdman has fashioned a grisly tale of international power politics and financial double-dealing that bring on a global economic calamity...
Made in East Germany, this bleak, elegiac tale suggests that lies like Jacob's may be a necessary, if sometimes fatal condition of life. A young ghetto girl can sleep with her lover only by pretending that the lover's roommate is deaf and dumb-then, after the roommate is dead, by pretending that he is still there. Jacob (movingly played by Czechoslovak Actor Vlastimil Brodsky) has no choice but to indulge the illusions of his adopted niece, who is entranced when he slips around a corner and mimics a radio broadcast, complete with an interview with Winston...
...film is a little self-consciously poignant. It carries its point as if it were a burden-which, to Germans especially, it undoubtedly is. Jacob's only reprieve is in his imagination. He tells his niece a fairy tale about a commoner who cures a princess's illness by bringing her what she thinks is a cloud-a pillow-sized mass of cotton (an analogy, perhaps, to Jacob's trying to cure his neighbors by bringing them what they think is hope). The implication, indeed, is that these colorful visions persist amid the gray rubble...