Word: folke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...They were not me and I could never be them." This wholly false conclusion is drawn by the author on his self-styled "voyage" backward through memory, history and time itself. "I" is Michael J. Arlen, the New Yorker critic and memoirist; "they" are Armenians, an obscure folk of Asia Minor who happen to be his blood relatives. For despite an elegant Anglo-American breeding, despite the aristocratic postures of his father, Michael Arlen is the son of Dikran Kouyoumjian, few generations removed from the peasant villages of Transcaucasia...
...incentive to unearth its strong American art collection. The Bicentennial has flushed American art out of storage and embellished it with historical dioramas, slidetapes and music in two shows, "Paul Revere's Boston" and "Valiant Upstarts." All the summer offerings are in American art. This includes folk art paintings which look like their creation were pshchics, magicians, or the forerunners of mad scientists, artists who delighted in optical distortions. One gripping painting in warped perspective is of a girl whose eyes are painted in super sharp focus. The focus blurs out inconspicuously in everwidening circles so that the girl seems...
...reasons are varied. For one thing, many Americans paid little attention to the rhetoric and ceremony at Helsinki or the crowds that cheered Ford as he joined in an impromptu folk dance in Bucharest. Residents of Los Angeles were more concerned over their inept baseball Dodgers. No speech in Helsinki could have distracted New Yorkers from grumbling about the city's financial crisis. Where there was a response, it seemed small and partisan. In Cleveland, only about a fifth of the crowds at the city's annual All Nations Festival gathered to hear Dr. Michael Pap, director...
...fits in somewhere between the wanderings of freer "black music" and the excesses of more melodic (read electronic) music. Davis and Ghetto Mysticism have been nearly alone as proponents of free music in Boston, and anyone whose ears have been plugged against the softer wares of so-called jazz-folk can pull out the wax this week at the Jazz Workshop through Sunday. Cover's only...
...becomes paralyzed. His closest friend goes insane and attempts to decapitate him. A mistress who has misbehaved is turned over to three derelicts to be gang-raped. Yet Tarden is also capable of whimsical decencies. A political prisoner is released when Tarden blackmails his jailers; like the poor folk in Grimm's fairy tales, people who aid the agent are given windfall rewards...