Word: folke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...good week for Her Royal Highness The Princess Margaret, 47, Deputy Colonel in Chief of the Royal Anglian Regiment, Colonel in Chief of the Royal Highland Fusiliers and, among other things, president of the English Folk Dance and Song Society. Suffering from flu, the princess lay ill abed at Windsor Castle, where the royal family had assembled for an extended Easter holiday. There, according to well-placed reports, Queen Elizabeth II had a serious talk with her younger sister about Margaret's swinging lifestyle. Reason: the princess's reputation, as well as her health, was ailing. Not only...
...scientific truth too high a price to pay for sowing the agony of doubt in the minds of common folk? The Little Monk (Rudy Caringi) describes the pain his poor parents would suffer if the earth were no longer the center of the universe and man the paragon of God's eye: "There will be no meaning in their misery. Hunger will simply mean not having eaten, rather than being a test of strength. Hard work will simply be bending and lugging, and not be a virtue." To which Galileo replies: "I can see your people's divine...
...most complex intellectual and emotional force; it can explore the most critical of ethical and behavioral dilemmas." As C. Day Lewis-who was once Britain's poet laureate and, as Nicholas Blake, a canny suspense writer (The Beast Must Die)-put it, the mystery story is "the folk myth of the 20th century...
...folk hero status of journalists today makes people think they are invulnerable," Tom Brokaw, host of NBC's "Today Show," said yesterday in a talk sponsored by the Law School Forum...
Broumas also read from "Caritus," a series of lesbian love peoms, and recited her "fairy tale poems," old folk stories with a feminist twist...