Word: tale
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your story states: "So far, the tale of My Lai has only been told by a few Vietnamese survivors-all of them pro-V.C. . . ." It is a shame that all the pro-American My Lai survivors have not been heard from...
...minister and his flock have found so satanic and obscene? The first one is Hermann Hesse's Demian, first published in 1919. Hesse happens to be one of the titans of modern literature, and his fiction earned him the Nobel Prize in 1946. Demian is the deeply probing tale of an adolescent's passage through various stages of spiritual turmoil to a final self-realization under the influence of a slightly older and rather mysterious friend and guide. There is an overlay of symbolism and surrealism, and a Jungian concern with the workings of the subconscious...
Last week Los Angeles police announced that they had solved the five murders and three others as well. If they are correct, the alleged murderers were even stranger and more bizarre than their crimes. The police case was based on the tale of an accused murderer, Susan Denise Atkins, 21. She sketched out a weird story of a mystical, semi-religious hippie drug-and-murder cult led by a bearded, demonic Mahdi able to dispatch his zombie-like followers, mostly girls wearing hunting knives, to commit at least eight murders and, police say, possibly four others...
Manson is presently in custody on car-theft charges in Independence, Calif. Los Angeles police are seeking conspiracy and murder indictments against him. The case began to break several weeks ago when Miss Atkins, a former acid-dropper and topless dancer, began to blurt out pieces of her gruesome tale in jail, and another prisoner informed police. Also, Daniel De Carlo, 25, who heads a motorcycle gang, told police that Manson invited him to join in one of the murder excursions...
...weeks, talking with government, industry and labor leaders. "Other nations," he reports, "may be plagued by jolting strikes and shutdowns, but in Scandinavia relations between workers and employers remain remarkably serene. This tranquility between such traditionally adversary forces seems at times as magical as a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale. It also happens to be the special glory of the Scandinavian economic system...