Word: folke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...story and in the two hours it takes to read it you'll come to abominate the word Gaelic but identify with the essence. Na Gopaleen's wit cuts through the affectations and facile enthusiams of all Gaeligores and gives a glimpse of "the world as seen by the folk in Corkadoragha", a remote "Gaeltacht". Though in the preface to the first edition, "The Editor" cautions that Corkadoragha is "without compare" and not to be taken as representative of the Gaelic community as a whole, in fact the town where the author-narrator of An Beal Bocht, O'Coonassa...
...rotary hoe is (a) a subcommittee of the Rotary International, (b) a folk dance in a "hoe down," (c) a type of spike-tooth harrow, (d) a Cultipacker used in no-till agriculture, (e) a farm implement used to loosen soil after planting...
...President Nelson Rockefeller made him the target of one of history's most labored puns (he claimed that Candidate Jimmy Carter's appearance at a Nader gathering meant that Carter was trying "to pass himself off as one of the Nader-day saints"). Now the lean, intense folk hero is coming under fire from a few of his former admirers-liberals who applaud his service to a noble cause but deplore the way the myth is altering...
...knock off another 50? and I'll buy double the amount," wheedles an old hand at the Detroit market. Many farmers do not put up much of a fight since they can pull in $1,000 on a good Saturday. Some of the farm folk even admit to a fondness for those odd city shoppers in their Lacoste shirts and Gucci shoes. Says Michael Temple, a grower from Brewster, N.Y., who peddles his produce in Manhattan each week: "The people here are nicer than back home, where there are farm stands all over the place...
...just sing for my own amazement," says George Savalas, 46, curly-haired kid brother of TV's Telly Savalas, 52. George, who usually plays harried Detective Sergeant Stavros on the Kojak series, has been playing to New York nightclub audiences lately -all thanks to an album of Greek folk tunes that he recorded last April. Judging from Savalas' enthusiasm after one performance, he may have brighter prospects as a cafe crooner than a TV cop. Says he: "I was walking four feet off the ground and singing like a cannon." A cannon? "Like a cannon and a bird...