Word: minstrelling
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Married. Donovan (real name: Donovan Leitch), 24, Britain's versatile, vibrato-voiced minstrel (Isle of Islay): and Lynda Lawrence, 23, girl friend of the Rolling Stones' late Brian Jones; both for the first time; in Windsor, England...
...nobleman he was; greatly did his hounds love him." So did one medieval minstrel apostrophize his hero, suggesting that a good hunting dog might be a duke's best friend. He was not far off. Hounds were often treated better than serfs. Huge preserves were set aside for game, and poachers were punished with mutilation or death. In fact, "venery" (the kind practiced in the field rather than the bed) even had the approval of the church, which exhorted dukes and princelings to engage in hunting to avoid the sin of indolence. In addition, the clergy often blessed...
...leads in this production were peculiarly excellent. Karl D'Challa Deirup seemed at first just a bit too mature as the callow youth, Nanki-Poo, but his first song ( A wandering minstrel I/a thing of shreds and patches... ) established Nanki-Poo as a totally different character from that of the traditional interpretations. Alan Abrams, as Pooh-Bah, the Lord High Everything Else, was marvelous as the proud but corrupt political hack. But the undisputed star of the show was Josh Rubins, as Ko-Ko, the Lord High Executioner. Following the opulent train of reverent courtiers, he wore a ludicrous robe...
...sense of subservience during the agonizing disappointment of Reconstruction and through the long dark age of de jure segregation. Flight from reality, as illustrated in the nonsense lyric of Dan Tucker, formed the bedrock of the earliest Negro humor. Later, vaudeville, radio and the movies perpetuated the blackface minstrel stereotype of the happy-go-lucky devourer of watermelons...
...grade. It was during these years that he apparently developed his hatred of the affluent and a loathing for women. In and out of prison, Manson became interested in music and the occult, and when he was last released in 1967, he headed for San Francisco as a "roving minstrel...