Word: folke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...single idea. Readers of "Midsummer Night's Madness" will recall how the formally unrelated short stories in that book all elaborated a central theme; the change--usually a disintegrating change--wrought upon its characters by the stress of a hopeless political revolt. In "A Nest of Simple Folk" the pattern of a family chronicle extending in time from 1854 to 1906 is woven about a similar theme. By tracing the fortunes of three generations of Irish men and women, Mr. O'Faolain has been able to realize the implications of his subject to the full, and heighten its significance against...
...Nest of Simple Folk" is as carefully studied as a novel could well be. Almost every relevant aspect of Irish life is built about the brief scaffolding of a plot outlined above. The book as a whole reminds one forcibly of the fortunate position which the Irish writer enjoys. Sean O'Faolain belongs to a culture which has felt intensely the impact or modern social unheavals, and simultaneously enjoyed the revival of rich and ancient national culture. As an artist he has profited by the great achievement of James Joyce in creating a mature racial conscience, while as an individual...
...program will open with Harvard singing alone Morley's "Shoot False Love," the "Miserere" of Allegri, and Handel's "When His Loud Voice." Mozart's "Dir, Seele des Weltalls" from the "Music for the Freemasous," and two folk songs, "Crudele Irene" and "Bonnic Dundee," after which the two glee clubs will combine to sing the remaining three numbers...
...come with us!" The Mennonites shook hands and kissed all around. Singing "God Be With You Till We Meet Again," they marched off the Deutschland. Two hours later the three missionaries were sailing off to preach God's word to black men and the 400 pious folk in their "plain dress" were in their ten railroad coaches, rolling back through the night to their farms in Lancaster County...
...Miserere Allegri." Two choruses from the "Music for Freemasons" by Mozart have been selected which are the choruses from the Cantata "Dir, Seele, des Welfalls" and the Cantata "Die Maurerfroude." Mr. Joseph Lautner will give a tenor solo and the Glee Club will complete the program with two folk songs, "Bonnie Dundee" and "Crudele Irene" and the choruses from the "Gondolters...