Word: tales
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kubacki has not been chuckling as much as usual lately. The storybook tale of the junior's unexpected ascent to the top of the Harvard quarterback roster and the nation's offensive standings has taken a tragic twist...
Habeas Corpus. A British comedy about doctors, subtitled "A Tale of the Permissive Society." Its cast includes June Havoc, Celeste Holm, Jean Marsh, Rachel Roberts and Donald Sinden. At the Colonial Theatre, 106 Boylston Street, Boston. Performances through November 8, evenings at 8 p.m., matinees...
Several myths arose to justify such treatment, thereby buttressing the patriarchal system. The Biblical tale of Potiphar's wife continues to be used against rape victims. Potiphar (an Egyptian) has an unnamed wife who lusts after her husband's Hebrew slave, Joseph. When virtuous Joseph refuses to succumb to her charms, she becomes enraged and falsely accuses him of rape--Joseph is thrown into jail...
Perhaps. But the conference heard little new evidence to shake skeptics, presumably including the observers from the Federal Aviation Administration and the North American Air Defense Command. Before repeating the tale of his brief "capture" by a spacecraft that landed near Pascagoula, Miss., in 1973, Fisherman Charles Hickson prudently refused to go through with a promised polygraph examination. On one thing the conferees did agree: in the future the squabbling UFO groups-the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization (APRO) and the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP)-will pool their findings and allow Hynek...
...another tale, a white-haired bishop oversees the construction of a new cathedral. In the process an old cemetery is bulldozed and bones are unearthed and reburied. The final sacrilege is worse: the arch has no keystone-two rocks with a crack between, it seems, constitute the new style...