Word: arcadian
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Sunday, Feb. 27. Arcadian Winds Concert. Music by Ravel, Pinkham, Hetu, and d’Rivera. 5 p.m. Harvard-Epworth Church, 1555 Mass. Ave. Call (617) 496-2222 for tickets...
...humor stands him in good stead during a forbidding journey that begins in Istanbul and then carries him through bleak Russia, bleaker Kazakhstan and into the finality of Mon-golia, a swept land that "made the sky ... seem crowded and fussy." Inspired by what he perceives as the Arcadian freedom of the nomads?the word Mongo-lian, he writes, "evokes the scent of grass and of fallen leaves, some atmosphere of twilight and horses"?Stewart plans to journey the 1,600-kilometer breadth of Mongolia by horse, not a good idea unless your last name is Khan. Those he encounters...