Word: tales
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...fame, either, but ardor and devotion. In The World of Charles Dickens, English Novelist Angus Wilson suggests that Dickens, publishing most of his works in serial form, achieved the same intimate, regular contact with his audience as Scheherazade in his childhood favorite, The Arabian Nights. Dickens kept telling another tale. Jokes and fantasies, social and political critiques, plummy visions of Christmas swept from his pen. He even wrote a front-page article in his own magazine, Household Words, to explain and justify the breaking up of his staunchly Victorian marriage after 22 years...
Falling and Screaming. Sledge, 23, Calley's radio-telephone operator and now a salesman of ladies' luggage, was the first to testify last week. His tale was one of continuing horror. He recalled coming upon a group of 30 or 40 Vietnamese civilians gathered at an intersection and under guard by former Pfc. Paul Meadlo. (Meadlo has so far refused to testify at the trial, claiming the constitutional privilege against self-incrimination.) According to Sledge, Calley went up to Meadlo and ordered him to "waste 'em, and Meadlo started shooting into the people−about ten feet...
...enigmas without revealing a single motive for her crime. The plaints she registers against the cousin-housekeeper are that she was silent, efficient, clean, ate and slept well, and "was too fat for the house." This is rather like the killer in Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart, who murdered his victim because he could not stand his clouded blue eye. With power and wonder, both Poe and Duras show us that an act may be most distinctively human and lifelike precisely because it is logically motiveless...
...opera is remarkably powerful. All melody pared to its bare essentials, Janáček'a music illuminates Čapek's bizarre tale with a cold, exciting glare. Characters declaim in energetic syllables that leap from one end of their voices to the other, too tense to lapse into song. The orchestra vibrates with intense color and rhythm, microscopically reflective of each dramatic subtlety...
...that plasmas offer the only practical means of attaining the enormous temperatures (630 million degrees F.) needed for controlled nuclear fusion. Restlessly, Alfvén has already expanded into other fields: cosmology (the universe, he contends, is made up of equal quantities of matter and antimatter), science fiction (The Tale of the Big Computer), music (the book for a data-technology opera) and space planning (he is currently campaigning for an unmanned mission to one of the asteroids). His main interest now is investigating how planets are born...