Word: folke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Paul Stookey "sings to his plants" on his Maine farm. Peter Yarrow is co-producing a television special about the adventures of Puff the Magic Dragon. Mary Travers spins out solo albums. Ever since they disbanded seven years ago, the folk-singing trio have kept music on their minds, and now comes a coda: a P-P-M reunion. Last week the three announced that they will cut a record and in August they will set out on a monthlong, 17-city tour. "We're living in a different time now, so some of the styles may make some...
...Responsible for Personal Articles (Random House; $7.95), Lois Gould describes how Woman on the Go might actually make it. Her article How to Liberate Your Entire Family, in Your Own Home, Without Cost or Obligation belongs in an anthology of contemporary folk wisdom. "I have finally concluded," writes Gould, "that ours may be the only middle-class family in America to have taken the final revolutionary step toward total liberation. Our children swab their own bathroom! They also swab ours! Indeed, they vacuum the rugs, do the laundry and the grocery shopping, help prepare meals, do all the cleaning...
Despite the Nazi Holocaust, the Oberammergau Passion Play, Bavaria's decennial Catholic folk pageant, has gone on using an 1860 text that portrays Jews as Shylocks and Christ killers. Since the Second Vatican Council's denunciation of antiSemitism, however, a group of townspeople led by Head Woodcarver Hans Schwaighofer has been agitating to dump the lurid script. Last year Schwaighofer's group staged a trial run of a 1750 version that makes Satan the heavy and, like the New Testament, portrays the Jews as divided over Jesus. In February the town council voted to use that version...
...They have soul. Quinn is discovered brooding sadly over his wife's beauty. Why does it make him gloomy? Because, he says, all beautiful things must eventually fade. That is in the nature of things. He is full of such slack epigrams, otherwise known as folk wisdom. Though this trait is more laughable than memorable, it serves the function of making him human, despite his wealth, his international wheeling and dealing, his lusty eye for wenches. Indeed, since everyone who has been in reach of a newspaper over the past 15 years knows in broad outline the later-life...
...enthusiasts, Sun Day was also an occasion for celebrating spring. In Washington, D.C., 20,000 people spent a day reveling en masse in the sun at the Washington Monument, which acted as a gigantic sundial. They threw Frisbees, jogged in a "sun run" around the mall, sang folk songs and listened to blue-grass music...