Word: rusticating
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Thompson's music, scored for a chamber orchestra, organ, chorus, and the figures of the Pageant, is unadorned, often almost spare, and calmly joyous. A bustlingly rustic fugue hurries the shepherds towards Bethlehem, where they celebrate the Nativity in an awkward but loving dance. Mary croons a soft lullaby, and Joseph sleeps contentedly by her side. Simeon prophesies the wonders of the Messiah's coming; a boys' choir sings an awestruck Noel, the chorus a mighty, antiphonal Alleluia...
...rustic Harvard Square is off to slow start. Although Saturday crowds made many merchants smile, things seem to have settled down this week. Students are thinking about going home, rationalized Bob Slate. Or may be they're hoping to get gifts, and not give them, said another manager...
...PROVINCIAL visiting The City is likely buy his Cue or New Yorker find "what's happening", eat at a few restaurants, see some shows, look at hieroglyphics in the Metropolitan Museum and return to his rustic existence with some small change and a reinforced conviction that New York is indeed nice to visit but no place to live. This unfortunate pattern results largely from the fact that what is most interesting in New York is often most difficult to find, and the knack of living both well and at the same time inexpensively in this most varied and wealthy...
...accepted Italy's unconditional surrender. Just 20 months later, the same general, still stiff and frozen faced, met in a French schoolhouse with the emissaries of defeated Nazi Germany, and without outward emotion scribbled his name on the document that ended World War II in Europe. Those two rustic but historic occasions marked the climax of a brilliant military career for Walter Bedell Smith. In the postwar years, he served his nation notably as a diplomat and as chief of intelligence. But it is in his role as the able military planner who helped map the great campaigns...
...Hallmark Hall of Fame (NBC, 8:30-10 p.m.). In "The Joke and the Valley," Dean Stockwell is an idealistic stranger, Thomas Mitchell and Keenan Wynn the rustic pranksters. Justice triumphs. Color...