Word: shepherdesses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Faris ibn Naif es-Sa'bi, gentle-eyed, black-bearded Bedouin nobleman, "the truest friend I have ever known.'' With Faris he drove from Damascus over the hard, dry, gravel uplands in search of Amir Fuaz, witnessed the unfolding of Faris' romance with a young shepherdess, Tuema, encountered on the way. When the two travelers pledged Tuema their protection, she let them sleep in her tent without fear, knowing that they would not break their word. Later Carl Raswan learned to understand why Bedouins' promises and the unwritten laws of their social code were...
Helen Gleason, a sprightly New Yorker with a bright little voice, looked odd in the _ shepherdess costumes and mulatto makeup which Bersi the maid wears in Andrea Chenier...
...Philadelphia Orchestra last week. It sounded no harsh or eerie effects, embodied no attributes of the mechanical age, neither steel works nor jazz. It was music made for beauty's sake, music suggested by the old Greek legend of Daphnis and Chloe, a shepherd and a shepherdess who grew up together and loved inevitably. Violinist Efrem Zimbalist wrote it. Conductor Leopold Stokowski played it first in Philadelphia. In Manhattan next day he put it on the same program with Stravinsky's new violin concerto, a superficial showpiece on which Violinist Samuel Dushkin has the purchased monopoly, also given...