Word: folke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...since the bumbling New York Mets turned into instant folk heroes in 1969 has the sports world witnessed anything so surprising as the New York Islanders' inspired dash through the Stanley Cup play-offs this year. After first knocking off the Rangers, their haughty New York cousins, and then churning back from a three-games-to-none deficit against the Pittsburgh Penguins, the young, spirited Islanders very nearly upset the league's defending champions, the Flyers...
Seeger's entourage entered into a symbiotic relationship with the people they met, drawing from their traditional folk heritage and in return writing new songs which described their circumstances and problems. All of which man help to explain Seeger's hurt at being accused of anti Americanism...
...closest thing we have to Shakespeare." Poets like Eliot, he argued, may have displayed more genius in their verse, but they were never to reach the large audiences that Dylan appeals to Because of his medium, music and the ways he is able to manipulate it (from the folk song tradition to electric "folk rock" to the Nashville sound), Dylan is capable of communicating good poetry to more people than the modernists could ever have hoped...
When special effects don't interrupt and he doesn't have to wrestle our attention from the stagehands as they clear up the debris from the previous scene, Robert Larsen can demonstrate his ability, Peer, based on a folk hero, is an yarn-spinner and boaster, and Larsen is an excellent story-teller. From the opening scene, with Peer's fib of riding astride a reindeer-buck. Larsen reveals astounding acrobatic ability, vocal control, and stage presence, lending greater weight to Ibsen's lyrical verse. His versatility becomes apparent as his mood and expression age with Peer, who bears...
...like best are the book's biographies. Gems, every jack of them. Zircons, actually. George Washington in four pages. Lincoln in three. Even in the U.S., Burke 's retains its pukka airs. Calls Nixon "controversial." L.B.J.'s the chap who had "a large stock of folk tales - not all of them appropriate for a polite audience." Gerald Ford is the one who was born Leslie Lynch King Jr. Only King in the book. Pity...