Word: folke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...South: the official organizers served nothing stronger than nonalcoholic Catawba grape juice, though they tolerated hip flasks of bourbon and Scotch. But there were also elements of the New South: many of the majorettes in the inaugural parade were black, and at the ball, after some foot-stomping folk dances by the Grandfather Mountain Cloggers, the North Carolina Dance Theater performed an excerpt from The Nutcracker. Said Hunt: ''We have to involve people, and we simply must be more creative in asking them to get involved...
...City folk are hopeful that Carter will carry out his promises to do something about the staggering problems of blight and crime. Detroit Mayor Coleman Young foresees a new era of cooperation between the cities and the national Government. But others are skeptical about whether Carter can do much to reverse urban decline. Said Psychologist Wayne Oates of the University of Louisville: "The great poverty in America today is not for money. It's not for buildings. It's for ideas. People are tired of the old solutions...
...remain unreformed backwaters of totalitarianism. The Soviets keep hundreds of dissidents jailed, while penalizing and harassing thousands more who have attempted to voice unorthodox views. In the past two months, East Germany has arrested dozens of intellectuals, harassed citizens seeking to emigrate to the West, and exiled its leading folk-pop hero, Balladeer Wolf Biermann (TIME, Dec. 20). Even in Poland, which along with Hungary is the most relaxed of Russia's client states, the Gierek regime has been attacked by Warsaw intellectuals for the "tortures and abuses" of people arrested after last summer's food riots. Perhaps...
...classes. Injuries from 14 years of non-stop dancing melted away. Ounces, however started to add up to pounds. A sentimental visit to her former ballet teacher, Carmelita Maracci, easily hooked her on dancing again. She credits her husband, a onetime record producer whose circle includes film makers and folk musicians, with opening her horizon. Never again, vows Cynthia, will she permit dance to consume her life. Says she: "I don't want to spend the whole day and night at the theater." Audiences will gladly settle for three hours...
...Evening of Folk Music, featuring your old favorites Joanne Bronfman (Seagram's heiress?) and Neal Macmillan will be presented at Myron's Coffee House in Maynard on January 21 at 8:30 pm. If you leave Marshfield right after the Sour Mash Boys finish their first set, you'll make it to Maynard just in time...