Word: folke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...specialist in nudes, Artist Peirce has a finely sensuous feeling for barns. In the last decade, he has painted a dozen unexcelled canvasses of the light-shot, hay-filled interiors of sunlit barns. But Maine folk would never stand for a naked woman walking around in a cowshed. So Painter Peirce first sketched his barn, then came to Manhattan to locate an appropriate model and paint his canvas...
...Botkin joined the Federal Writers' Project of the late WPA to direct the collecting of U.S. folklore, saw the Project disbanded before he could publish much of his material. For five years Botkin continued to collect and edit the folklore included in this whopping, hodgepodge anthology, to which folk-loving Carl Sand burg (Abraham Lincoln: The War Years) has written the folksy foreword...
Speaking on "Jazz and Folk Song Influnences," Aaron Copland, visiting lecturer of Music, will give the fourth in a series of lectures tomorrow night at 8 o'clock in Paine Hall...
...this evenings concert will include two duets from Baroque cantatatas by Buxtehude and Schutz, two choruses from "II Matrimonio Segreto" by Cimarosa, the "March of the Peers" from "Iolanthe" by Sir Arthur Sullivan and Sir William Schwenk Gilbert, "Glorious Apollo" by Webbe, and "Prayer of Thanksgiving," a Netherlands folk song...
Evenings they gather round a campfire and, to a jingly, woodsy brand of folk music, sing "come-all-yez" and tell tall tales of the timberland. Favorites are "The Breaking of the Northwest Boom" and "The Days of Paddy Gillis." Best line in "Paddy Gillis" runs: "They who spat upon their hands and pushed the forest back...