Word: folke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Oklahoma! Spring-fed, bright-bubbling folk musical with delightful dancing and gay Richard Rodgers tunes (TIME, April...
...Radcliffe's special features is Emilie Jacobson's '46, "Just Between Us Girls." Harvard men can't hear this; it's just a lot of gossip about men and dates anyway. Eileen Ellis' program, "Americans in Music," is a history of music in the Americas, with recorded examples of folk music from all over the western hemisphere; Harvard can hear it on Tuesday nights at 10 o'clock...
...dance,' and I obliges. After that we come to the sweetest part of our program-hymns." Guitar& Slops. Not many St. Louisians are abroad at 5:25 in the morning, but Cousin Emmy does not mind. She is talking for her own mountain folk and for small-towners. They listen, too-such is the power of KMOX-from Canada to Guadalcanal. They also buy the cough drops and hair dye she plugs, as is eloquently testified by the $850 a week which Cousin Emmy usually takes...
...invariable white dress and red hat, Perla Siedle amplifies her vibrant soprano with a ship's megaphone. Yanks ask for God Bless America, The Star-Spangled Banner, Tommies for There'll Always Be An England. Australians want Waltzing Matilda. South Africans prefer their own Afrikander folk songs like Sarie Marais. Czechs, Poles and Greeks like opera arias...
...mere drop in this bottomless bucket of poverty, superstition and disease. . . . He watched rain drench the road and knew that everywhere humble people were praising the Lord as they paddled through the downpour. . . . But he was incapable of sharing in the jubilation of. these god-infested folk-their joys and their griefs were on too vast a scale for his participation...