Word: tales
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...BOOK is the bittersweet tale of one boy's love-hate relationship with Dartmouth. Hart entered the school in 1977 and found himself, happily, rooming with Jeff Kemp, now quarterback of the Los Angeles Rams and the son of congressman Jack. There were dignified professors with whom to study Shakespeare and St. Thomas Aquinas, and the splendrous White Mountain scenery to enjoy...
Perhaps it is all as simple as that old tale about Christopher Columbus and the egg. The explorer was being mocked at a dinner by a courtier who declared that Spain was full of mariners as bold and adventurous as he. If Columbus had not discovered the new route to the Indies, said the courtier, someone else would inevitably have done so. Columbus asked for an egg and then challenged all the guests to make it stand on end. They passed the egg from hand to hand, some trying in vain to make it stand, some arguing that it could...
...Tsongas tells us throughout Heading Home, this Mr. Smith Leaves Washington tale is not about defeat. It is in the concise prose of Tsongas' narrative, about the lessons of life, about what is important and what...
...pinnacle of power partying, naturally, is the White House, whose annual holiday bashes are regretted by almost no one asked. Indeed, one tale this year involves a recently divorced newsman. When the White House invitation was mistakenly sent to his old address, his ex-wife accepted, then showed up at the press reception with her new boyfriend. The splitting of the press corps into two gatherings prompted concern that there were separate but unequal "A" and "B" lists; the Washington Post looked into the matter and found that the division was egalitarian, each party boasting roughly the same number...
...problem the novel presents to an adapter lies in a "trick" (Forster's own word) of design, a conscious separation of the meaning of the tale from its main narrative line. That narrative, richly peopled with types Forster encountered on two long trips to India, is quite straightforward. Psychologically, the point on which it is poised is the suppressed emotional tipsiness of Adela Quested. As played in the movie by Australian Actress Judy Davis, Adela is dull at first glance but with a wild surmise glowing in her eyes, her gestures half formed, alternately acknowledging and denying the curious...