Word: peasant
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
During the 1940s one could tell the dictators and dictatees by their shirts. There were black ones for Mussolini's Fascists, brown ones for Hitler's National Socialists and a blousy peasant number that Joseph Stalin occasionally wore when he wanted to convince the world that he was just a country...
...pieces reprinted here, mostly from Vermont Life, Country Journal and The New Yorker, range from meditations on the metaphysics of farming to shopping guides on the purchase of chainsaws and pickup trucks. Taken together, they sketch the education of a greenhorn who was "once a New Yorker, now a peasant" in the rigors of owning and running his own farm. Perrin recalls the winter morning he awoke to find the temperature outside-26°F., his house at 37° and falling, his oil tank empty. He recounts his early, inept attempts to fence off land from deer, other predators...
...peasants take in destitute children and an eight-year-old boy had been imposed on a peasant family. Then he disappeared. And on investigation, his bones were discovered by the peasant's shack, in a big crock. The question was only whether the boy had been eaten after he died or had been killed to be eaten later...
...says she wasted much of the 1960s "working on the Nixon finance committee, and I never went to a demonstration in my life until the animals turned me on." By way of explanation, she points to a RESPECT THE ANIMALS DON'T EAT THEM button on her peasant blouse (coordinated skirt, 35? at a rummage sale) and continues: "People are into getting healthy now. I do yoga every night, so I don't go to movies any more. I won't see this one. I'm trying to get into herbs." Another keeper of the flame...
Despite all the tensions, Gelsey danced a succession of new roles in La Sylphide, La Fille Mal Gardée, Les Sylphides. Her first Giselle in May 1975 was a major triumph. Gelsey's peasant girl seemed halfway toward spirithood even before she falls in love with and is betrayed by Baryshnikov's charming, careless nobleman. Pure spirit in the second act, she had gossamer lightness, nearly unbearable youthful poignance. The part confirmed her arrival as a romantic ballerina...