Word: saxonizes
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...Anglo-Saxon ideals of initiative and cooperation have produced a culture based on mass production in the United States, according to Andre Siegfried, Bacon Exchange Professor...
...Death has become a dirty word, writes British Anthropologist Geoffrey Gorer in the October issue of Encounter, and is taking the place of sex as an off-color theme. "Whereas copulation has become more and more 'mentionable,' particularly in the Anglo-Saxon societies, death has become more and more 'unmentionable' as a natural process . . . Our great-grandparents were told that babies were found under gooseberry bushes or cabbages; our children are likely to be told that those who have passed on (fie! on the gross Anglo-Saxon monosyllable) are changed into flowers, or lie at rest...
...parting duet ("O gentle heart, would we again were drifting/ Far from this world of waking"), but is often pale and fragile as the illustrations in English children's books. Walton, after all, is neither Italian nor Russian, and no one need complain if he goes politely Anglo-Saxon in the clutches. His one baldly passionate scene is the orchestral storm that accompanies the lovers to bed behind their curtain; its three thundering climaxes are almost embarrassingly literal ("You have to pass the night somehow," quips Walton...
Musically, the opera is a pioneer work since it covers a neglected field--the midwestern musical tradition. The simple, strongly harmonic folk songs in Thompson's score are traceable to English folk music in Anglo-Saxon times...
...choir was directed by slender, thirtyish Edith Möller, who used to be co-director of a district school for underprivileged and "difficult" children in the Saxon town of Obernkirchen (pop. 6,400). When the school building was commandeered for a hospital in 1946, she decided to organize a singing group ("Music has a beneficial influence on children"). She gathered children of local railroaders, lumber dealers, locksmiths, mechanics, polished up the kids' piping tones until they became as smooth as their scrubbed faces, and as crisp as the little girls' curtsies. The late Poet Dylan Thomas...