Word: folke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...application of the list. Simple association with an organization, and this can include attendance at an AYD folk-dance, should not be a standard for condemnation of an individual. The questionnaire even asks, among other things, if the signer has ever been present at social gatherings of the listed groups. The only sure criterion can be "Does the individual believe in the policies of these organizations...
...less energetic folk, Ruby Newman will supply ballroom music. The whole thing will be very informal and the publicity release claims anything from broomstick skirts to blue jeans will be acceptable...
...Ordinary folk have overwhelming faith that their Prime Minister will solve not only national but also personal problems. They collect on his lawn every morning, and usually get to hand him their petitions. Once, after he spoke in a village near Delhi, a woman rushed up with a note informing him that her husband had treated her shabbily and intended to marry again. Would the Prime Minister, from the speaker's platform, ask her husband to cancel his marriage and mend his ways? Regretfully, Nehru refused...
...group program was slightly different. The delegates staged folk-songs, dances, and some original choral work in a pageant that represented the history of America. Their offering was popular; the delegates noted before they left that people were humming folk-songs from the show all over Budapest. "To help explain the thing," says one of the returning delegates, "we got up a program...
Died. Henry Thacker Burleigh, 82, Negro baritone who composed (or arranged) more than 50 spirituals (Deep River; Go Down, Moses) and some 200 songs, acquainted Antonin Dvorak with Negro folk music that became thematic material for his symphony From the New World; in Stamford, Conn...