Word: folke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pictured animals are always game, supremely important to a folk in a cold climate, ignorant of agriculture, crudely weaponed and without means of storing food. Commonest beast in cave murals is the horse, and bones in prehistoric garbage dumps show the horse was the chief game animal. In all cave art, male figures are far outnumbered by female figures, which were introduced only as symbols of fecundity to insure increase among the deer, bison and mammoths as well as women...
Morale is constantly nursed; fighting spirit is nurtured. For an hour every day officers gather their men to explain the political acts of the Nazi leadership, to give every soldier a sense of participation in history. Units meet for the singing of folk songs, for political, scientific and cultural lectures...
Just like two ordinary folk...
...disaster: 1) unemployment of youth; 2) failure of the Versailles peacemakers to give any thought to post-war education. Dr. Schairer also thought he knew a remedy for Europe's ills: the highly successful Danish educational system and economy. Feature of this system was Denmark's Folk Schools, which taught Danish peasants breadth of vision, thus making them better democrats, by means of poetry, history, religion. From the Folk School movement sprang agricultural schools, cooperatives, a new system of dairy (instead of grain) farming and decentralized industry, which had made Denmark one of the most prosperous nations...
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 2 ("Little Russian") in C Minor (Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra conducted by Eugene Goossens; Victor; 8 sides; $4.50). A folk-tuneful work, never before recorded, gets a good performance from an orchestra new to discs...