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Dates: during 1960-1969
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New Brunswick, N.J., Children's Summer Theater: Incredibly, a dramatic version of The Canterbury Tales-for the kiddies.
Few descriptions of a tropical disease have revolted more readers than this passage in James A. Michener's Tales of the South Pacific. In World War II, mumu,* or filariasis, which produces elephantiasis in its late stages, terrified U.S. fighting men in the Pacific as much as did the...
THE COMPLETE TALES OF HENRY JAMES, VOLUMES I AND II (876 pp.)-Edited by Leon Edel-Lippincoff ($ 11.90).
Writers from Sophocles to James Jones have believed in winning readers by giving them plenty of action. But in Henry James's 20 novels and 112 tales of upper-class life, blood is rarely spilled (and if it is, hastily wiped away), sex is at best suggested, voices are...
James later toned down the melodrama of these early stories, and fewer characters died of broken hearts. But only one of these stories is hopelessly bad; a few rank not far below the best of James's later tales.