Word: pastorale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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You will probably never meet just the sort of English yokel Theodore Francis Powys writes about; you will certainly never run into a whole village of them. His Sexton Truggins, Farmer Beerfields, Dame Tastes are symbolic figures, but they are more than merely parabolic types. Such earthy behavior and marrowy...
The program I Mennet Muffat Pastoral Capriccio Scarlatti Mennet Ravel Jesus Christus, Filius Dei Bach II Gnossienne Sabie Prelude Debussy La Soiree dans Grenade Debussy Danse de Pucto Debussy L'Apres-midi d'un fanne Debussy III Espano cani Unknown Tango Espagnole Albents El Polo Albents Canco danza. No V...
Matey, youngest daughter of a clever, ineffectual professor in a Midwestern college, suffers like her brother and sister from the constant but never recognized warfare between her father and mother. Francis pretends not to notice, Priscilla becomes a terrified invert, Matey says nothing but notices everything. When her father dies...
Blunden is often classed as of the genus pastoral: his descriptions of English countryside have been likened to Wordsworth. He is a meticulous observer of the outdoors, and couches his observations in many a good old country term. In Near and Far his Muse wanders to Japan and through the...
*More cautious than many of these priests, the Archbishops of Malta and Gozo declared in their joint pastoral letter (TIME, June 16) that it would be a "grave sin" and the Vatican's White Book says that priests who exceeded this limit have been "recalled."