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Swoboda's treatment of Brahms' Symphony No. 2, in D major, was far happier. The symphony, pastoral in mood, abounds in lyrical songs and placid melodies. Brahms provokes these tunes to passion or to jubilation, depending on their humor.
In Venezuela, as in most of Latin America, it could happen and it does with great frequency. Nearly half of Venezuelan children are born illegitimate-and that statistic does not count those born out of wedlock but recognized by the father. Only a third of all Venezuela's women...
But "Shout" is by no means the only great song in the album. The two next best are "That Lucky Old Sun," which presents a Spenserian contrast between the ideal pastoral world and the world of brutal reality and "Respectable," which examines the clash of antipodal ethical systems within a...
The Island was a pastoral ground of almost 1,000 acres, in the bay directly east of the new settlement of Boston; it made a worthy estate for one of the American colonies' worthiest citizens. Samuel Maverick was "a young man of means and education in his twenty-second year...
Brown served 34 years as secretary of the Missions Board, "thankful to have a part in the movement for human betterment." He produced what is still the classic guide to the essential meaning of pastoral life abroad, The Foreign Missionary. At the behest of his friend Herbert Hoover, Brown helped...