Word: talese
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CACTUS FLOWER. The French need sex farces as children need fairy tales. In this telling, a dour duckling (Lauren Bacall) becomes an appealing swan just in time to tame the big wolf (Barry Nelson).
Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd was in a very real sense a child of the conflict. He was born at the height of the fighting, in a Dutch village near Amsterdam. His grocer father was a member of a committee to help Boer refugees, and so incensed did he become at their...
Not Tales But Truth
Sir: Pertinent to your excellent article on middle age are those lines from Chesterton's great epic, The Ballad of the White Horse: "But the hour shall come after his youth,/ When a man shall know not tales but truth,/ And his heart fail thereat."
Edwin E. Moise, James B. Conant Professor of Education and Mathematics, told the audience that there must still be hope for America, if a President feels he has to delude his people with fairy tales. "If LBJ thinks the American conscience is not dead, then I cheer up and think...