Word: rondeaux
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...Candace Rondeaux, Afghanistan analyst for the International Crisis Group, says the insecurity and questions about the value of the vote "given the potential for fraud has kept a number of voters from the polls." A low turnout will do "little to enhance the sense that all Afghans are included in the democratic process," Rondeaux says. "It also raises the possible threat that the incumbent's main rivals will question the results and perhaps encourage a violent response, leaving open a window for the Taliban to fully disrupt Afghanistan's progress." (Watch a video on the Afghanistan election...
...Dittler, violin; and Mr. Percy Such, violoncello:-- I. Musette, II. Sarabande, III. Forlane en Rondeau, F. Couperin I. Menuet, II. L'Indiscrete, III. Tambourin, Rameau (Quartet.) Chansons populaires. (Soprano.) I. Chanson Louis XIII, II. Pavane, L. Couperin (Violoncello.) I. Sarabande, II. Pavane, De Chambonnieres Gigue, Loeillet (Flute.) Chaconne en Rondeaux, F. Couperin
Robert Grant, '73, has four taking rondeaux in the last Century bric-a-brac...
...carping and cavilling at the envied superiority of their betters and in disclaiming all partisanship in favor of what they mockingly call the French jingles. There is a college in New York which does not hear "the babbling of the brooks and twittering of the birds" in the rondeaux, ballades, triolets, and emphatically expresses its disapproval of such baubles of rhyme as follows...
...certainly written some of the prettiest bits of this sort which have appeared this side of the Atlantic. His contributions have appeared for years in the columns of the Argo, and the Acta has quickly fallen into step with him, so that now every issue brings its load of rondeaux and ballades. This fall Mr. Sherman has tried the rondel and huitain with more or less success, although now he seems to have reached his rope's end. The following is perhaps the best thing he has put out this year...
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