Word: taling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...growing vegetation, the flow of waters, the sweep of winds, the souls of animals, the souls of men good & evil, the living, the dead, press in upon him from, the night. He finds relief from their imminence in simple patterns of beauty and dread-and the primitive fairy tale is born...
...trees and the naiads from the pools. Man seeks escape from pressures of another kind-the weight of desiccating factualism and the steel girders of civilization which he has built around him to shut out the night and the enemy, nature. Then, in his distress, the sophisticated fairy tale is born...
These two books exemplify both types of tale...
Ever since Boccaccio or before, Italians have had a saying: "Se non é vero, é bene trovato-It may not be true, but it's a good story." Last week, according to the A.P., Italians were telling this tale...
...Manatee, a tale of love and whaling-men ("Violent . . . corrosive. . . . Jabez Folger['s] soul was possessed by an evil demon. . . ."), was the year's freak success. Nancy Bruff, wife of a Wall Street broker, hired crack Press Agent Russell Birdwell to put over her first novel. With a nude heroine in the form of a ship's figurehead enlivening its cover (see cut), and pretty Author Bruff. décolletée, enlivening its advertising. The Manatee soared high on best-seller lists...