Word: talese
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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* A 17th century informer whose tales of imagined plots against Charles I led to a reign of terror.
For 16 years, the French-speaking province of Quebec was a quaint backwater off the Canadian mainstream, slow to develop but full of lively tales about the grafting ways of Provincial Premier Maurice Duplessis and his Union Nationale party. Soon after the mighty Duplessis died in 1959, the Liberals came...
Warp & Woof. The turnover in some Manhattan buildings is dizzying. Many families who are lucky enough to have sublet clauses in their leases exercise them within months of moving in-provided they can find a sublessee to take the rap for them. Tales of recalcitrant electronic elevators with wills of...
Two Straws. Steinar of Hlidar, a typical Laxness peasant-hero, grows restive with life on his small farm, where he works on a stone wall begun by his greatgrandfather and regales his children with fairy tales. He longs for spiritual challenge. A Mormon missionary, one of many who came to...
Zoltan Kodaly's Hary Janos Suite, best described as an interminable joke, constituted the second half of the concert. The suite recounts in six programmatic movements some tales of the Hungarian folk-hero Hary Janos, and is as much of a musical extravaganza as those tales were tall. "A magnificent...