Word: nan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unyielding terms. Avantgarde, with Genet, is in part millenniums-old ancien regime. His originality rests on the very origins of theater, on ritual and ceremony, magic and masks; his modernity lies in how he reshapes, distorts, sophisticates, extends hem. Of all this The Blacks-a white nan's often extraordinary venture into Negro fantasy and psychology-is strong-y compacted...
...Russia was to supply mainly machinery and finished goods, to be paid for with Chinese foodstuffs and raw materials. But with its well-publicized drought ("for 40 days it was possible to drive a car along the bed of the Yellow River," said Chinese Ambassador to Poland Wang Ping-nan recently), Peking was unable to deliver its part of the bargain. Instead, China has been sent scrabbling to buy wheat for itself from Canada, foodstuffs from other non-Communist nations to feed the folks at home...
China's Instrumental Heritage (Professor Liang Tsai-ping and Group; Lyri-chord). A fascinating collection of Chinese folk songs, dating from the yth to 18th centuries and played on such authentic instruments as the zitherlike cheng, the hsiao ('vertical flute), and the nan-hu (violin). The wiry melodic lines, wavering and falling away, have the delicate but hypnotic fascination of ancient Chinese watercolors, and the songs have subjects to match: Wild Geese Alighting on the Sandy Shore, The Spring River in the Flowery Moonlight...
...NAN RUSSELL...
...Cheerful Day, by Nan Fairbrother. A London doctor's wife gracefully comments on bringing up father and two sons...