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...children, particularly, another delight is the "Folk Life Festival," which is devoted to U.S. and Canadian ethnic groups and their crafts. In one section, aromatic with Scottish haggis* acooking, clansmen show how to make bagpipes, boots, quilts and kilts, and invite youngsters to join in. In another section there are Indian tepees and longhouses, and a sluice where kids can pan for gold...
...elusive, inhuman world of folk lore. Country dwellers recounted weird tales of the Good People, who direct the magnetic currents of the earth, and of gnomes, or earth-spirits--a dark, stocky lot, no more than two and a half feet tall, with sorrowful round faces. Although Scottish peasants, and seventeenth century scholars before them, discussed fairies with grave respect, incredulity has since been the rule among citydwellers. Perhaps a tinge of madness inspired an apparent sympathy for fairies, as well as children, in those writers. Jonathan Cott prefaces his recent anthology of Victorian fairy stories with some ingenious "Notes...
...male chauvinism of the opening line: "Australia's sons, let us rejoice." Other complainers pointed out with obstinate but irrefutable logic that God Save the Queen was almost anti-British in comparison with the obsequious lyrics of Advance Australia Fair, which was written and composed by an emigrant Scottish carpenter around 1878. Sample lyrics...
...vehicle of expression" than a fully articulated political organization. Though it is gaining recruits at a rate of 1,000 a month, the S.N.P. has not yet won over a majority of Scots. Instead of independence, many would be satisfied-and may indeed prefer -the formation of a Scottish parliament operating within the framework of continuing union with England. Most important, nobody can reasonably expect the British to abandon North Sea oil, which Westminster sees as the basis for solving its own economic woes...
Despite the unlikelihood that it will achieve its ultimate aims for some time to come-if ever-Scottish nationalism is being discussed, in this most empirical and skeptical of countries, as Scotland's first significant political movement of the past 50 years. At the very least, the movement has revitalized the Scots' sense of their own uniqueness. Poet MacDiarmid recalls a statement by Robert Louis Stevenson that "there are no adjacent peoples in the world so utterly and inalterably opposed to each other as the Scots and the English." To MacDiarmid the lesson to be drawn from Stevenson...