Word: taling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...times over that Klee, no matter how hard he tried, was no child. Some of the pictures had the bright, immediate privacy of peep shows, some were suffused with an insane glee; but all showed a controlled hand whose simplicity was as artful as a Hans Andersen fairy tale...
...reason may be that it contains almost nothing to weigh it down. It is Shaw on a holiday. His account of how a phonetics expert transforms a Cockney flower girl into the likes of a duchess is first & foremost good fun. It is a highly satirical, wryly Shavian fairy tale-but a fairy tale for all that...
Only the paradoxical G.B.S. would suggest how much more insecure she is when bediamonded than when she was bedraggled. Only the perverse G.B.S. would select a gruff, self-centered, confirmed-bachelor of a phonetics professor for a fairy prince. But even Shaw leaves the door open for a fairy-tale ending...
...Then Margalo disappeared. Stuart left home quietly, got himself a tiny automobile and went in search of her. And so he drives abruptly out of Author White's slim (131-page) book-one of the most lovable little boys (despite his mousiness) in literature. Stuart Little is a tale of few laughs and many smiles. Adults may read into it any meanings they like. Children will read and reread...
...rode near and far, high and low, along bypaths and by-ways- for speedily a tale is spun, but with less speed a deed is done- until he came to a wide, open field, a green meadow. And there in the field stood a pillar, and on the pillar these words were written : 'Whosoever goes from this pillar on the road straight before him will be cold and hungry. Whosoever goes to the right side will be safe and sound, but his horse will be killed.'" What happened when Prince Ivan turned to the right, his adventures with...