Word: folke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...With so many homes broken as a result of the family head serving in the armed forces, parental supervision is lacking, and this type of music leads to war degeneracy." For the rebuttal up rose Leopold Stokowski: "Some foreigners do not understand how rich the U.S. is in folk music. . . ." Said Frank Sinatra (whose worshipers had been labeled "pitiful cases" by Rodzinski): "Nuts! . . . After all, I grew up in a jazz craze, and I did all right...
...play some typical Chinese instruments; the hoo-chin, similar to the western violin in construction but with a different tuning scale, and the pee-bah, comparable to the Occidental guitar, will be demonstrated. Indian and Turkish students may play some of their instruments also, notably the Indian flute. Native folk songs and Chinese opera scenes will be presented against an Oriental backdrop of Chinese landscape murals...
Terror swept the Bessarabian plains, driving the peasant folk and bourgeoisie like leaves in a rising storm. The Red Army was less than 70 miles away and advancing westward from the Kiev bulge. Behind the crumbling German front, Rumania trembled...
Imaginations had long since found release in popular, illustrated broadsides. The tradition of this imagerie populaire, passed on by Geneva cartoonist Rudolph Topffer, was rekindled by Dore. His little-known little kings of Russia, emerging from the same folk sources as Otto Soglow's present-day Little King and Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse, have a verve and gaiety that is hard to reconcile with his brooding plates for the classics...
Lucius Beebe, Manhattan exquisite who writes rococo chatter for the New York Herald Tribune, was much miffed by the wartime atmosphere. Wrote he: "... Pretentious folk are busy with cosmic urges which only tomorrow will be remembered as humorous follies and bumbling with skirmishes with destiny which next week will be recalled as yesterday's hysterical giggles." He predicted that Edward Ringwood Hewitt's savory volume of reminiscences, Those Were The Days (TIME, Dec. 27) "will be read and remembered when the apologies of current admirals and the postured stompings and poutings and cries...