Word: tales
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...system of tree forks, five meters high, above the roofs. This aqueduct crossed over the town, reaching the patios, where there were great stone fountains to receive the water. The channeled logs, covered with moss, dripped water all over town. It gave the village the ambience of a fairy tale...
...plane crash was dramatized in the 1952 movie With a Song in My Heart; of a heart attack; in Columbia, Mo. Froman was a popular balladeer en route to entertain troops when her flight crashed near Lisbon. Her marriage to the pilot who saved her life had a fairy-tale flavor, and the optimism she maintained through more than 30 operations on her crippled legs touched millions, especially when she sang such sentimental favorites as I'll Walk Alone and Climb Ev'ry Mountain...
...there is a villain in this story," said Postmaster General William F. Bolger last week, "the villain is inflation." But the victim of the tale that he told was the public. Starting next February, Americans are likely to be socked with a huge hike in postal rates, a proposed overall average of 28%. Pending approval by the independent Postal Rate Commission, the cost of a first-class stamp, 15? now, would go to 20?. Since 1952, when a letter could be mailed for 3?, the increase has totaled 567%, more than twice the increase in the cost of living...
...TALE BEARERS by V.S. Pritchett Random House; 223 pages...
...Tale Bearers is a companion piece to The Myth Makers (1979), which concentrated on European and Latin American literature. Pritchett's subject now is a mixed bag of British and American writers, ranging from Joseph Conrad and Saul Bellow to Rider Haggard and Mary McCarthy. This choice seems random, and indeed it was largely dictated by the books that came to Pritchett for review. The result is a sampler rather than a thesis, and none the worse for that. It is much more fun to be treated than lectured...