Word: talese
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The Experiment. In the past eleven months Red China has admitted only one non-Communist newsman-Fernand Gigon, a Swiss journalist, who took the pictures on the following pages. Gigon and other foreign visitors tell a story that supports the refugees' version of Red Chinese reality, sharply contradicts Peking...
Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories and Other Tales (Boris Karloff; Caedmon). Actor Karloff, in a voice as rich as a ripe persimmon, unwinds with "infinite resource and sagacity" the mad Kiplingesque logic featuring the rhinoceros with a three-button skin and the Parsee from whose hat the rays...
Serious Sex. Greer delights in debunking a catalogue of old cats' tales. Foremost is the "nine lives" business. Says Greer: "Cats aren't even interested in one life. They have a built-in death wish that makes them roll over and die at a point where most other...
Director Donskoi's cartoon-capitalists are often fun to look at, if impossible to take seriously, and even moviegoers who cannot believe in Marxist fairy tales will feel the chthonian power of Donskoi's images. In one, a ballroom filled with swilling businessmen whirls like a carousel as...
THE SPINOZA OF MARKET STREET, by Isaac Bashevis Singer (214 pp.; Farrar, Straus & Cudahy; $3.95). In these tales about Poland's Jewish ghettos before World War II, Isaac Singer creates a world so fresh, so full of the beat and cries of astonishing life that he can fairly be...