Word: pavana
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tourist observations are sometimes so accurate as to be childlike, as when she remarks that all Spaniards spit. Far from childlike, however, are the rich and strange characters she has imagined, costumed and made live in pantomime: a sultry, majestic Spanish girl of the 16th Century dancing the slow Pavana; a tragically refined pre-War young woman at a party in Vienna Provincial; and Queen of Heaven, for which Miss Enters recently got into the bad books of the Roman Catholic bishop of Montana. having quoted, as a program note, Henry Adams' remark that in the 12th Century...
...Pavana. The Earl of Salisbury...
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