Word: legendes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...series of plays and novels, among them Gay's Beggar's Opera, derived from the life of Jack Sheppard, a young thief and ruffian of early 18-century London who became a folk hero through the British love of the scurrilous and inane. This particular version of the Sheppard legend has the hero start out as a relatively innocent carpenter's apprentice and slowly immerse himself in the ways of thievetry, lechery, and general debauchery-only partially against his will. He is extorted by Jonathan Wiold, the Thief-Taker General (Peachum in Gay's play), ends up in Newgate Prison...
...month before her death in 1963. Her first book of poetry, The Colussus, was published in 1960; Ariel was published in 1965. and Uncollected Poems in 1965. Although her novel goes far towards explaining her poems, it is not an appendage; it stands on its own. Sylvia Plath's legend is as ruthless and as individualistic as Joan Didion's, But where Joan Didion's Play It As It Lavs describes nothing leading to no suicide, The Bell Jar describes every thing hilarious you and I have ever done leading to suicide. She never tells us there is nothing...
...wisdom of Chairman Mao, but on Taiwan the island people still cling to their ancient folk religion, a heady mixture of Buddhist, Taoist and Confucian beliefs and practices. None of the old gods and goddesses is more popular than the gentle Matsu, patroness of fishermen and seafarers. According to legend, Matsu was a devout 9th century girl who acquired divine powers at her early death. Pioneer Chinese settlers credited her with protecting them on their trip across the Taiwan Strait 350 years...
...ideal in the Middle Ages. Like everything else, however, the cycle of revivals has quickened in the 20th century. The '40s seem far away and romantic to people growing up in the '70s, while the '20s and '30s are already shrouded in the mists of legend. Viewing them, those who are under 30 might as well be with Petrarch or Leonardo, peering through the murk of a millennium at the wonders of the Caesars...
...Nash has struck pain into the blistered calluses of oarsmen up and down the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia. The former flight instructor, juvenile judge of traffic, guerrilla warfare teacher and resident lifeguard on the Schuylkill the recently saved two people from drowning there is as much a legend around Penn as Parker is at Harvard...