Word: folke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that we and all the peoples of the days and years to come may dutifully and lovingly honor Franklin Delano Roosevelt's great beneficence and vision, let us, the people of America, suggest to all the leaders and common folk of the world that the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Court of Nations be erected to house the conferences and meetings that are to come in the days of peace. ... If his spirit pervades its halls, we Americans as well as all freedom-loving peoples of the world will be well represented...
Before intermission, "Carousel" is a mediocre folk opera; after intermission it leaves all bounds of reason. The hero, Billy Bigelow, having committed suicide, is led off by two unidentified gentlemen in tweed suits. In spite of his protests he is taken around the front door of heaven and sent in the back way under the "mother of pearly" gates where he meets heaven's janitor dusting off stars. By now reduced to nothing more than a slushy dramatization of the maxim to live your own life regardless of what your parents were or did, "Carousel" concludes with Billy returning...
There are some nice things in Dark of the Moon. With its folk songs and dances, its revival meetings and darting witch girls, it is freaked with color, touched with strangeness. But all this adds brightness rather than body to a yarn that is never very robust, and that takes hours to re-count what the ballad tells in a moment. Nor is there much more real poetry to Dark of the Moon than there is real drama. Its folkways make pleasant enough rustic vaudeville, but they smell of Broadway. Its witches' world escapes absurdity, but falls far short...
When the deep-chested young singer from County Limerick had finished his arias and folk songs, the room clattered with applause. Even hearty old Tenor (and Papal Count) John McCormack said of 23-year-old Singer Christopher ("Christy") Lynch: "He is the one most likely to succeed me. ... A very beautiful voice ... I have not heard better in a quarter of a century...
...Canada) was in the midst of a five-week Manhattan engagement. It was performing ballets in Diaghilev's best classical tradition. But the big novelty in Manhattan was a rowdy, corn-likkered, genuinely U.S. ballet: Frankie and Johnnie, an adaptation of a well-known U.S. folk ballad...