Word: harvester
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...traditional side show of London's Season-the weeks of social harvest between the opening of the Royal Academy in May and the first week of August-is opera at elderly, fuddy-duddy Covent Garden. Last winter, Londoners talked of letting Covent Garden sit out this Season. Some reasons: some backers objected to German and Italian singers, Wagnerian operas; others were alarmed about wars and rumors of wars. To the rescue of Covent Garden leaped gruff, goateed Sir Thomas Beecham, who has spent uncounted sums from his pill income ("Worth a Guinea a Box") to give England good music...
...ninth anniversary of King Carol's accession to the throne next week: 2,000,000 of them had no cow, 1,600,000 no pig. But as the high waters of the Danube receded, Rumania's 60,000 professional fishermen prepared to gather their regular harvest of carp and sturgeon trapped in canals and streams. And as spring surged up the Danube groups of young men in national costume moved from place to place, dancing in each village, in a four-week jaunt that dates from the days of the dancing priests of Attis. Over the white, dusty...
...HARVEST - Jean Giono - Viking...
Slighter than The Song of the World, and written before it, Harvest, a simpler, more sentimental story, has been more popular in France. Its plot withers under synopsis like a mushroom in the sun: a huge, passionate peasant becomes the last inhabitant of an abandoned mountain village, marries a stray waif, and together they begin to cultivate and repeople the abandoned land. Sample Giono description: "And today there had been rain. Like a bird it arrived, settled, and went away. The shadow of its wings had been seen passing over the hills of Néviėres. It came...
Robert Marcus Burgunder Jr. was generally regarded by those who knew him as a model young man. He was smart. He was well-behaved. During school vacations he worked in the Wrest Coast harvest fields, drove a tractor on a cinema studio lot, organized magazine sales crews. Robert's father is a respected lawyer in Seattle, a onetime prosecuting attorney. Robert followed each one of his father's criminal cases with intense interest, spotting in each case the malefactor's errors which led to detection and capture. Mr. Burgunder was somewhat puzzled by this queer absorption...