Word: populars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Like It is, after all, Shakespeare's bow to the vogue of the pastoral, with its shepherds and shepherdesses and attractive landscape--inspired by the publication a decade earlier of Sidney's Arcadia. The work is also Shakespeare's answer to two popular Robin Hood plays staged the previous year by a rival troupe. Indeed the exiled men are here explicitly compared to "old Robin Hood" and his "many merry men," whose Sherwood Forest has become Arden Forest...
...remain one. In 1975 it was voted as the best science fiction novel of all time by the readers of Locust, a New York City-based "fanzine," ahead of classics like Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy and Robert Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land. It is good popular fiction; by which I mean it rates with the best of Eric Ambler...
...ditty: a popular night for pah-ties, though in Wash-tin, pah-ties are often thrown on Mun-dee, Toos-dee. We's-dee, Thush-dee, Frah-dee and Sun-dee as well...
Nowhere was the disappointment greater than in Africa, where popular sentiment was strongly opposed to the political decision to withdraw the teams. A number of African athletes telephoned home to say they were considering forfeiting their citizenships and settling in the U.S. "I'm fed up with black politics," said a member of one team. "At the next Olympics I hope to be competing as an American." Added a coach: "If my boys wanted to play politics, they would run for Parliament. To wreck their sporting careers for petty political points is not only unfair-it is criminal." Lamented...
...about one of the chorus' celebrated pianissimos. "Sopranos, listen to the tenors and just place the sparkling star gently above their sound. It should have a misterioso quality, just whisper. Shh, shh." Balancing a chorus of 170 is a tricky business, no less so when it turns to popular music. "This song has got to bounce, it's got to bubble!" she burst out last week during a rehearsal of The Night They Invented Champagne, from Gigi. "Why don't you smile? Your singing is rather heavy here. Just rela...