Word: tales
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...considered an acting career, and the aging dancer has been showing up at a London studio to cut his first record. Nureyev, who defected from the Soviet Union in 1961, read the title role of Stravinsky's L 'Histoire du Soldat (The Soldier's Tale) in lightly accented English. He then described his trepidation at leaving his silent art even temporarily. "I usually don't have the courage," confessed Nureyev, "but I arrange things so that I can't escape." Nervous or not, he apparently intends to keep at it. Next spring he will team...
...favorites, Jean Arthur, appears in Only Angels Have Wings at Dunster. Cary Grant is the hero in a tale of South American aviation. Jeff Flanders...
Habeas Corpus. Subtitled "A Tale of the Permissive Society," it is a comic courtroom drama. The 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...
...unexamined mysticism. In ghost stories, where everything is possible for the narrator, too little is plausible for the reader. It is in his least adorned works that the mysteries of affection and identity are hauntingly stated. Sam Palka and David Vishkover, for example, is not merely the richest tale in Passions, but one of the most provocative short fictions of the last decade. In his customary role, Sam Palka, self-made entrepreneur, swaggers through a career of indulgence. In off-hours he assumes the role of Vishkover, a modest sewing machine salesman who courts the unprepossessing Channah Basha...
...slow day Western history might be reduced to a tale of two apples. The first comes wrapped in art and myth: Eve took the bite and mankind got its eviction notice from Paradise. The second is baked in its own apocryphal jacket: Isaac Newton got his deep insight into gravity when struck by a falling fruit. Result: a new brand of physics that relocated us even farther from the godhead-and a reverse anthropomorphism that saw the human body as a machine. Today Adam Smith implies the West has an urge to work its way back, past technology, past...