Word: idyllic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dismal winters on the godforsaken farm at Craigenputtock, kept her mouth shut when he was talking, swallowed her humiliation when he spent his evenings with Lady Ashburton, took a back seat for 40 years, and in the end convinced Victorian contemporaries that the Carlyle marriage was a gruff idyl. Her reward was the affectionate petname "Goody," the company of famous men, her husband's fame...
...village on the St. Johns River. He sees a flood, afterward goes hunting where stranded wild animals are thicker than flies. Jody's pal is a pet fawn. He takes it on hunting trips, even sleeps with it when he can get around his fussy, practical ma. The idyl ends when hard scrub reality forces him to kill his fawn because it cannot be kept out of the corn patch...
Next day the beleaguered Villa Cimbrone was guarded by four carabineers, three police dogs. On the locked gate hung a "keep out" sign. But from talkative servants at the villa, reporters were able to piece together the kind of idyl their editors were gasping for: Greta milking a cow named Emma* while Stoky held Emma's head; Greta contentedly stroking the white nose of a llama while Stoky picked fresh white camellias, presented them with conductorial bows to "my lady of the camellias." At the Hotel Caruso, where, until they were discovered, the couple had gone regularly...
Outcasts of Poker Flat is a synthesis of three Bret Harte stories-the title piece, The Luck of Roaring Camp and The Idyl of Red Gulch. Though skimpily produced, it invokes with a fidelity unusual in a double-biller the wild land and rugged times in which its scene is laid, and the nostalgic charm of the Harte stories. Its worst fault is the failure of explicitness in the last sequence, leaving the audience completely fuddled as to the reason for Oakhurst's suicide. Equally silly are scenes in which the outcasts ride out in warm weather...
Hugo Leichtentritt '94, lecturer on Music, will give a free public lecture, with musical illustrations, on "Idyl, Elegy, and Landscape Painting, the Music of the Birds, the Brook, the Winds, the Forest, in Madrigal, Opera, Cantata, Instrumental Music of the 16th and 17th Centuries", tomorrow afternoon at 4:30 o'clock in the Music Building...