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Olde England-the phrase conjures visions of red-cheeked lads frolicking with shy maids, of nut-brown ale bubbling in pewter flagons, and sturdy oak-beamed, thatched-roof cottages. These days, the red-cheeked lads and shy maids are living it up in Chelsea, and the nut-brown ale is thin and sour, but cottages with roofs thatched in reed or straw are back in style. The British government is acting to preserve the best examples, and the thatchers themselves -an independent breed that was dying out-suddenly have more work than they can possibly handle...
...Feminism includes equality with men in the job market and in clubs, though it is not restricted to that. Already, women have invaded countless dens once reserved exclusively for the lion: there are women at McSorley's Old Ale House in New York, women in soapbox derbies and stock car races, women cadets in the Pennsylvania state police. Women have come to protest what seems to them to be the male chauvinism of rock music. An all-female group in Chicago belts...
Larousse Encyclopedia of Music. Edited by Geoffrey Hindley. 576 pages. World. $19.95. A potpourri of minstrels and melody that manages to make the songs of old Provence seem as delectable as poulet a la proven∧ale. So too with musical greats from Palestrina and Purcell to Wagner and Webern, in a handsome treatise that is informed and comfortably free of jargon. This is primarily history, not a quick alphabetical reference aid (readers wanting that should try the Oxford Companion to Music). The knowing may regret the cursory treatment of American music and wonder, say, why Stravinsky and Berlioz...
WALTER MANSFIELD, 60, of New York, on the Second Circuit. Before moving up to the court of appeals in June, Mansfield sat for five years as a district court judge, where he made a distinguished record. One well-publicized decision required McSorley's Old Ale House in Manhattan to admit women. "Without suggesting that chivalry is dead," he wrote, "we no longer hold to Shakespeare's immortal phrase, 'Frailty, thy name is woman...
...Fine Olde English Game of Darts is not usually so dangerous. The most common peril, in fact, is a slow disntegration of precision caused by overdrafts of ale or lager, which most dart 51ayers regard as a pleasantly indispensable part of the game. This is perfectly in tune with the Fine Olde English Atmosphere in which the game flourishes nowadays as never before...