Word: tales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Innocent. The Short Cut retells an old existentialist moral tale. In it, every man is a hell unto himself, enslaved by uncontrollable events, victimized by his own exaggerated moral interpretations of them. After weeks of living in the bush, The Short Cut's hero drags himself back to camp only to. find that nobody has heard about his disease, nobody has reported the shooting of the native girl, and everybody, including himself, is booked for home...
...thing, the soundtrack of the movie, which has been making the rounds for about 10 years, is not what it ought to be, or even what it once was. For another thing, the technicolor, which is supposed to evoke the fairy tale atmosphere of faraway Japan, only makes the picture look like a collection of colored postcards. And Kenny Baker plays Nanki-Poo, the wandering minstrell, as if he were an Irish Tenor. Apparently some one forgot to tell him that he was not singing for Jack Benny...
...unaltered. Sun may rise and sun may set, but ever it goes back and is reborn ... All rivers flow into the sea, yet never the sea grows full; back to their springs they find their way, and must be flowing still. Weariness, all weariness; who shall tell the tale? Eye looks on unsatisfied; ear listens, ill content. Ever that shall be that ever has been, that which has happened once shall happen again; there can be nothing new, here under...
Cinderella. Walt Disney's beguiling retelling of the ancient fairy tale (TIME...
...Down, Moses. Like other miscellanies, this one is mostly ups-&-downs. Best of the few short stories in it is The Shout, a brilliant little tale of pure terror. The short essays are lively, learned snippets from Graves's favorite golden boughs of etymology and historical myth, e.g., one of them traces an incestuous path down the lineage of Rome's haughty Caesars, another gets a hold on the book of Exodus, turns it upside down, shakes its patriarchal Mosaic to fragments, and finally puts it all together again in the image of Graves's inseparable muse...