Word: plows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Alan Howard's rendering of the title role in the Royal Shakespeare Company production at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the line rings disconcertingly true. It is as if the soldier-king had left the plow for the fields of combat without ever having seen his own court...
Thomas Jefferson, no matter how intense the political battle or how burdensome the presidency, never gave up his other interests. Even while he governed, he thought of improving the plow he had designed, pondered the marvels of ornithology, wrote his ideas about the distillation of sea water and kept up with the new findings in meteorology. The genius of Jefferson's leadership was his insistence on a purpose in life beyond the mere possession and use of power...
...Angel; $6.98). Virgil Thomson is best known for his operas Four Saints in Three Acts and The Mother of Us All. Among America's serious composers, however, he pioneered the art of writing music for films with his scores for a pair of Department of Agriculture documentaries. The Plow that Broke the Plains (1936) and The River (1937). Thomson borrowed hymns ("the doxology") and cowboy songs (The Streets of Laredo) and added his own folk-style tunes in The Plow. These two scores were Aaron Copland's inspiration for several famous ballet scores, including Appalachian Spring...
...book does not, however, plow through one grim aspect of Soviet life after another; these are interspersed with light-hearted vignettes and pleasurable memories. The children in particular relate their stories with good-humor, almost bordering on blissful naivete. Katie's list of "what they have in Russia" includes on the Yes side "kvass, chocolate, prune soda pop, long lines, and the Kremlin," and on the No side "Band-Aids, gum, felt-tipped pens, comics, and Coke...
...often difficult lives far from urban civilization. The late '60s rural communes persist in Vermont New Hampshire, California, Colorado, New Mexico and elsewhere. Many city-bred farmers have discovered that Dwight Eisenhower (scarcely a guru) was right when he remarked that farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the cornfield...