Transcript: Interview: Jack Zipes discusses standards of beauty expressed in fairy tales

STEVE INSKEEP
Morning Edition (NPR)
07-06-2004
Interview: Jack Zipes discusses standards of beauty expressed in fairy tales

Host: STEVE INSKEEP
Time: 11:00 AM-12:00 Noon

STEVE INSKEEP, host:

This month, NPR special correspondent Susan Stamberg has been examining various opinions of beauty. Fairy tales are full of ideas on that subject. Think of that queen in "Snow White": `Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who's the fairest one of all?' Susan concludes her series Who Says It's Beautiful? with stories of beauty from once upon a time.

SUSAN STAMBERG reporting:

Once upon a time the longtime snoozer was beautiful, the one with the long braids was beautiful, the one with the little guy with pals ...

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