Word: folkway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lesson for Paris. While the conference stumbled on, Moscow's social life tripped on too. At one event (Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet at the Bolshoi Theater), Western observers noted an unfamiliar Russian folkway. As Molotov entered the Ministers' box, the audience began to applaud stormily; according to a fashion set by Stalin some years ago, Molotov applauded back. This went on for five minutes. Belle of the occasion was Mme. Bidault, in a grey chiffon Parisian evening gown that made Mme. Molotov look like a right-wing deviationist...
...Japanese, who have always been good mimics (and want to be good democrats), were busily tilting at an old American folkway: the square dance. "Caller"* at an experimental hoedown in Nagasaki was Fred Niblo, an A.M.G. director who thought that a dash of do-se-do was just the thing for the community soul...
Stegner's first non-fiction work, part of the American Folkway series, takes Mormonism from all ican Folkway series, takes Mormonism from all points of view and up to the present day. The scholarship is amazingly thorough and the intimate details such as interviews with now-senile bandits and orators that colored the old West are nothing short of sensational. Wallace Stegner has spent most of his life in Mormon country so he can write their story in their language without any trace of a strained, scholastic note. The story is only vaguely organized; what it loses in form...
...folk phrase of suburb and village was: "We keep ourselves to ourselves," and there were few who violated it by smiling at strangers. In the turmoil of common danger and common deprivation, that folkway died. A pick-up date is now almost respectable...