Word: folke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Western Hemisphere has produced two arts all its own: 1) U. S. jazz, 2) Mexican painting. These two arts are curiously alike. Neither is much influenced by European traditions; jazz grows from Negro folk tunes, Mexican painting from Aztec and Maya religious sculpture and the primitive religious paintings (retablos) that have hung for generations, as thick as shingles, in every mud-walled Mexican church. Like jazz, Mexican art is the product of exuberant talent rather than of training; like jazz, it has produced few first-rank geniuses, but the scintillating feats of line-&-color-crazed Mexicans often leave the learned...
...Merchant Marine needs ships for the deserted trade routes. They must be supplied. The British need ships to live. They must be supplied. Under the Lend-Lease Act, British ships may be repaired in U. S. ports. (This week a dam aged British cruiser was headed for Nor folk for repairs that will throw an added load on the yard.) They must be repaired...
...science or sleight of hand. Last week, to the standing offer of $10,000 made by the Universal Council for Psychic Research, the Scientific American added $5,000. Purpose: a renewed drive to expose a growing trade in ghostly fakery. As the world crisis gets worse, more & more fretful folk have fled to seance rooms, as they have also to astrologers' parlors (TIME...
...resilient British, to those wonderfully tough-minded folk who saw a kind of victory in the horrible defeat at Dunkirk, there was no call for despair. There was more than ever a call for vigilance and sacrifice. But the British also found reasons to hope that the Battle of Britain might turn for the better...
High-middling is I Love My Bonny Bride, a virtuoso piece in which the preparations for a 19th-Century wedding are perceived through a child. Weakest is Love by the Highway, in which a man and woman talk finishing-school folk poetry, skid off the thin edge into silliness...