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...full Chorus, with soprano soloist Dorothy Crawford, gave three excerpts from Vaughan-Williams' enchanting In Windsor Forest? the jaunty "Falstaff and the Faries," the lush "Wedding Chariot," and the sturdy "Epilogue...
...their summer khakis, pause to admire carefully arranged clusters of chrysanthemums set in their dusty control stations, sip glasses of hot green tea to keep cool. And even the most suicidal of taxi drivers is more likely than not to have at least one flower vase in his careening chariot...
...DOVES OF VENUS, by Olivia Manning (313 pp.;Abelard-Schuman; $3.50), pull the chariot of the goddess of love, according to classic mythology. The doves of British Author Manning's novel are yoked to illusions about love. Dove No. 1 is a breathless 18-year-old country girl named Ellie Parsons whose ideal of love is losing her virginity to Quintin Bellot, a middle-aging charmer-about-London. Dove No. 2 is married to Dove No. I's Prince Charming, but Petta Bellot has always operated on the theory that variety is the spice of love. Since Quintin...
Camels & Masks. Other signs of Egyptian influence are drawings of Nile boats and of bearded strangers with shields and spears and feathers in their hair. Then appear camels and horses. The war chariot -that great invention of ancient warfare -was at least heard of in the depths of the Sahara. Many of the drawings have not been interpreted yet. They show drinking bouts and hunting scenes, priests sacrificing a bull, a "ballet" of 40 ostriches and humans wearing animal masks...
...bomb site, selected a spot where he thought the systematic Romans would have built their usual turrets. Well below the modern surface, he found what he was looking for: two stone blockhouses about 25 ft. square. Between them ran a road divided by stone markers into two 8-ft. chariot-ways. The road had been surfaced three times. Grimes estimated that the forts and road were built in A.D. 70-90, about the time of the Emperor Vespasian...