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Word: folke (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...TIME cannot reproduce his warm rich voice or the stark poetry of his songs So perhaps we are safe, and he will not become a superstar but will remain a folk singer among those who treasure his gifts Mrs. Adrian Asherman Cousin's Island...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 19, 1979 | 2/19/1979 | See Source »

Phillips Brooks House, according to its charter, is available for rental to any outside group at minimum cost. Organizations from Scottish folk dancing to recruiting law firms have rented rooms there...

Author: By Miriam F. Clark and Larry Grafstein, S | Title: PBH: Finding More To Life Than Machiavelli | 2/8/1979 | See Source »

...openly. Besides having an edge toward the right over Carter due to his neat turnaround on Proposition 13, plus his call for a Constitutional amendment mandating a balanced U.S. budget, Brown has Carter worried over the religious issue. Carter may have the support of the Fundamentalists, the Born-Again folk, but Brown taps the Tao, culls the Zen support, rides the whole neo-Eastern-religious-cultists-pseudo-mystical wave. And Carter can scarcely forget that out of the last ten or so primaries in 1976 he only won a handful, and lost every head-to-head match he had with...

Author: By Eric B. Fried, | Title: Once More With Feeling | 2/3/1979 | See Source »

Everybody dances together, young and old alike, and every now and then the whole party forms a giant human chain which cavorts about before ending in a hopeless jumble of arms and legs. The music and dancing vary from French folk to American rock. Even my patron, M. Vallet, tried boogeying to the strains of Saturday Night Fever...

Author: By Nicholas D. Kristof, | Title: The Other France: Life Among the Peasants | 2/1/1979 | See Source »

Farmers and other country folk who live in seismically active areas have long insisted that animals often act strangely before a quake. Scientists' traditional skepticism about these reports has begun to erode, partly as a result of the work of China's "barefoot seismologists." These field workers have used observations of every kind-including changes in the level, temperature, color and smell of well water, and even the behavior of pandas in zoos-to make successful predictions of impending temblors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Sensing Quakes | 1/29/1979 | See Source »

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