Word: provencale
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Another interesting innovation is a brace of Provencal albas, translated by Norman Shapiro. These albas, one the song of a knight with his lady; the other that of his watching friend, are by far the most intriguing poetic contributions to the magazine. Of the four undergraduate's poems published, Greely...
"The show," said one enthusiastic reviewer, "reeks of garlic." He was describing an exhibition in Paris' Louvre of work by painters born in Provence (where garlic is even more popular than elsewhere in France). As a group, the paintings did give off a strong flavor: baroque, darkly passionate and...
Swallow & Spit. The early haunt of the pithecanthropus was in the south of France, at Aix. He was something of a sluggard in class, but after school he roamed through the rugged Provencal landscape with a youngster whose nature was as strong and perhaps even deeper than his own-Paul...
They made a surprisingly fine exhibition, and one that proved that subjective moderns need not be stultified by the task of painting theme pictures. The French, it appeared, were still champs: no U.S. entry could match the tonal subtlety of the winter landscapes by France's Christian Caillard and...
The Indonesia album is an aural education in itself. There is a Javanese war dance-written on the seven-tone pelok octave and played on bronze percussion instruments-which has the simple gravity of a Bach sarabande. A Sundanese love lament called Drizzling Rain, accompanied on a zither, carries its...