Word: talese
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The old movies almost always portrayed U.S. dreams-and thus, indirectly, realities. Just as the peasant tales retold by the Grimm brothers spoke of common maidens who could spin gold from straw, Hollywood created its own folk stories from the yearnings of 1930s audiences. If I Had a Million, for...
On the whole, his tales seem to be a process of working through to the point, of justifying the rounded resolutions that he pats into place at the end. In the long, superb title story, a woman's grief at her husband's death seems at first as...
Robert Kennedy, then, made America's problems personal causes. He baited white, suburban audiences throughout the country this spring with tales of life in the ghetto and on the Indian reservations. He told Oregon's hunters that easy access to guns was immoral. His personality, his bristling hope, and his...
Act III. Time, fall 1966; place, Lincoln Center. In her dressing room at the new home of the New York City Opera, Beverly is following the operatic custom of recalling events too numerous and complex to fit dramatically into a single scene. In the dazzling aria di bravura, Wasn'...
Author Bradford, 36, is the son of the late Roark Bradford, whose fanciful Negro folk tales about the creation, Of Man Adam an' His Chillun, were adapted by Marc Connelly into Green Pastures. He obviously has inherited his father's ear for dialect. On his own, he has...