Grant Cole, like thousands of other young Americans, was drafted into the U. S. Army early in the Korean War. Grant grew up during the 1930s and 1940s in Los Angeles, California. After school, he entered the machinist trade. Because of this experience, the Army assigned him to the Ordnance Corps. In Korea, he was placed in a maintenance unit in Seoul and remained there for the remainder of his active duty. His view of the war there was very different from one on the front lines. Grant learned that the face of war is always an ugly one.
The title of Sheila Cardano's book "Tail of a Squirrel and other Tales," alludes to the first story about a rather conceited squirrel called Spencer, who had a rapid rise to fame and an even swifter fall to shame! He learned his lesson, however, due to the intervention of a wise owl, Willowby, who fixed his injury by means of weird concoctions. All the stories are full of action and color, they are peopled by various imaginary beings - animals, children, elves, fairies and personified trees! They seem to be created for animated cartoons. Many of these tales have been dramatized by the author who is also a playwright, and performed by children in theatres, schools and churches. Noah's Ark was a great success, about eighty children played parts. "The Ears of Flop," "The Naughty Elf have all had their taste of stardom delighting children both performers and audience. "Legend of a Tree" with its moments of pathos has been mimed with dance, narrator and music. "Rosaleen" is the core of a full length fantasy play called "Magia" (magic) which was the first production of the Arts Enter Cape Charles at the Historic Palace Theatre on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. It was a clamorous success. The author is considering a similar transformation of "Peggoty Jane." Children love to become talking animals, princes and princesses, fairies and even animated clouds. The book is fully illustrated in brightly colored child like pictures designed for the joy and understanding of little ones of all ages everywhere.
Grant Cole, like thousands of other young Americans, was drafted into the U. S. Army early in the Korean War. Grant grew up during the 1930s and 1940s in Los Angeles, California. After school, he entered the machinist trade. Because of this experience, the Army assigned him to the Ordnance Corps. In Korea, he was placed in a maintenance unit in Seoul and remained there for the remainder of his active duty. His view of the war there was very different from one on the front lines. Grant learned that the face of war is always an ugly one.
This book foregrounds the pressures that three transformative technologies in the long sixteenth century—the printing press, gunpowder, and the magnetic compass—placed on long-held literary practices, as well as on cultural and social structures. Sheila J. Nayar disinters the clash between humanist drives and print culture; places the rise of gunpowder warfare beside the equivalent rise in chivalric romance; and illustrates fraught attempts by humanists to hold on to classicist traditions in the face of seismic changes in navigation. Lively and engaging, this study illuminates not only how literature responded to radical technological changes, but also how literature was sometimes forced, through unanticipated destabilizations, to reimagine itself. By tracing the early modern human’s inter-animation with print, powder, and compass, Nayar exposes how these technologies assisted in producing new ways of seeing, knowing, and being in the world.
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