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Young Moennig was apprenticed to his father for 15 years in Philadelphia before he was allowed to study in the Saxon village of Markneukirchen, where, since 1622, ten generations of Moennigs have fashioned string instruments. He brought back to Philadelphia enough seasoned Carpathian spruce and Tirolese maple to make 300 fiddles-which, at the rate of four new violins a year, will take a long time. He is convinced-that the wood is what counts. Harvard once made electrical tone tests of imitation Strads and Amatis that Moennig had built for the Curtis Quartet-and reported them slightly better than...
...Canada, despite any foreign notions about its rough & ready rowdiness, is a country deeply endowed with moral sense. Its feelings about "decency" stem from deep roots in both its Anglo-Saxon and French traditions-traditions whose offshoots have blossomed into some unlovely flowers of puritanism and respectability. Canada's divorce laws are harsh. The Canadian Lord's Day Act is a Sunday-observance law that makes Canada on a Sabbath day the dullest place in the world. The liquor laws are repressive...
GUMBO YA-YA-Lyle Saxon, Edward Dreyer, Roberf Tallant - Houghton Mifflin...
...legal difficulties were no less imposing. The Allies had to make the law for the trials; there were few precedents. The Anglo-Saxon jurists were used to jury trials of men presumed innocent until proved guilty. The French had legal customs based in part on the sterner Roman code. The Russians were used to even sterner totalitarian ways...
...account the fact that the "Germans" of whom Velleius Paterculus wrote were the people who lived in northern Europe in the land which then included not only present-day Germany but also the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Switzerland, northeastern France, Austria and part of Czechoslovakia. These same "Germans" make up the Saxon element of the inhabitants of the British Isles, and it seems to me that the English must be not a little proud of their drop of Saxon blood since they constantly refer to themselves as "Anglo-Saxons...