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Songs in the Capsule. After the war, Popovich worked as a herdsman in the fields, later won his diploma at a technical school in the Urals by designing the reconstruction of the dormitory in which he lived. He entered the air force in 1951, became a Communist Party member in 1957. While on duty in Siberia, he met his future wife, Maria, a woodcutter's daughter and an accomplished amateur stunt pilot, at a flying club near his station. Married in 1955, they have a six-year-old daughter, Natasha...
...According to the English chronicler Bede (circa A.D. 672-735), Caedmon was an illiterate herdsman who became the first English Christian poet, after receiving a divine call in a dream...
...Emil Schulthess (Simon & Schuster; $20), grew out of a trip to "Rocher Noir," between Libya and French Equatorial Africa, to photograph an eclipse of the sun. Photographer Schulthess got his sun pictures, but he also took hundreds of others throughout Africa (a desert woman nuzzling her child, a Masai herdsman and his flock), which together seem to say more about the Dark Continent than many prose books...
...assembled photographs of more than 100 art objects -the Assyrian Gilgamesh strangling a lion in an 8th century B.C. bas-relief, an Egyptian sculpture of the god Horus with lion-hunting gear, Heracles struggling barehanded with the Nemean Lion, as shown on a 5th century B.C. Greek vase, the herdsman subduing the ox in the Zen Buddhist Ox-Herding Pictures, a Russian icon showing St. George and the dragon. Oldest examples of her theme are drawings from the Lascaux Cave in France, done more than 30,000 years ago; one of the most recent is the symbolic bull in Picasso...
...other actors too are admirable, particularly Peter Hugens as the First Messenger, Marc Brugnoni as a Herdsman, and Thomas Teal as the leader of the chorus. D.J. Sullivan also deserves special mention for his more than creditable performance as Creon, a role which he took over at practically the last moment...