Word: curlew
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...east coast of England. The occasion was the 17th Aldeburgh Music Festival, where right from the start the main attraction has always been Townsman Britten. The premiere was just about to begin when a thunderstorm knocked out the electricity. When light was restored, Britten unfolded his hour-long opera, Curlew River, a moving parable patterned after an English medieval mystery play, but with strong No overtones in its echoes of Sumidagawa, its incantatory music and its austere dramatic styling. Did it mark a new "Oriental period" for Britten? Press and public agreed that Curlew River may not be a major...
...Allen, 78, Cornell University ornithologist who in 50 years of bird watching discovered many principles of avian psychology (birds are shocked to see themselves in mirrors, sometimes suffer from inferiority complexes), was the first to raise the ruffed grouse in captivity, locate the nesting place of the bristle-thighed curlew, record successfully the call of the whooping crane; of a heart attack; in Ithaca...
...boys are dazzled with the glory of war: "You don't think it will end before we're old enough to get in it, do you?" When the school starts up an army cadet corps, with uniforms and rifles, they are ecstatic. In his daydreams, young John Curlew shoots down a squadron of Nazis in his plane, cleans out a machine-gun nest with a single grenade, gets the Victoria Cross from Winston Churchill, and wins the adulation of the rest of the gang. In reality the other boys despise him for his friendship with Mark Stein...