Word: quailed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...least the fjords should have come alive with the sound of Grieg's music, but its richness is lost in endless romps over Julie Andrews' old daffodilled hillsides. It may be argued that Song is aimed at the kids. If so, they will quail pitifully when Grieg the reluctant piano teacher whacks a slow pupil across the, knuckles à la Seventh Veil. Anyway, today's Sesame Street-schooled youngsters are much too sophisticated to be beguiled by so banal and outmoded a story line. ∎Mark Goodman
EASTERN EUROPE AND U.S.S.R. Water pollution and land reclamation threaten 26 species in Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Rumania and Poland. A leading Soviet conservationist asked in a recent issue of Komsomolskaya Pravda: "Why do we see almost no flocks of cranes and geese in April? Why can we hear no quail in the fields in June?" One answer, as in much of the West, is the overuse of pesticides. Recently, two Soviet conservationists boldly and publicly accused none other than the Minister of Agriculture of illegal hunting in game preserves supposedly protected by the ministry...