Word: bunyan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hint of provincialism in Richter's earlier style had at first deterred critics from such bold appraisals. For years he was known beyond the Soviet bloc only in legends that told of a pianistic Paul Bunyan who played 120 concerts a year, every one of them good enough to make Beethoven weep. When he appeared at last-46 years old and bald-his mastery of the Russian technique was so impressive that he made its vices into astonishing virtues...
...shanties of New England sailors to the rhythmic songs of the free-swinging lumberjacks of the great Pacific Northwest. There was even a song that helped people put up rail-and-post fences. And in the most often repeated labor song of all-wherein John Henry, the Negro Paul Bunyan, works himself to death trying to compete with a steam hammer-the onslaught of the machine makes itself felt as it never could in a thousand pages of conventional history...
...Chicago is "a latter-day John Bunyan." John Bunyan ? Never heard...
...Paul Bunyan Shop Ely, Minn...
...From its slough of despond, TIME confesses it had Legendary Logger Paul Bunyan in mind...