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...more than a dozen like it that have been reported recently. In fact, they suggest in the British Medical Journal, the outbreak was a classic case of mass hysteria. It falls into the same category as the dancing manias of Germany in the Middle Ages or the Neapolitans' tarantella...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Mass Hysteria | 1/26/1970 | See Source »

...mixed talents, which are illuminated by English Pianist John Ogdon and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in this 70-minute work The introductory movement seems to be all stately facade, but once inside the musical structure, the listener has a merry whirl, particularly in the carnival atmosphere of the Tarantella...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Apr. 5, 1968 | 4/5/1968 | See Source »

...decidedly lighter vein. Princeton sang songs im Volkston from the U.S., Russia and a little town in New Jersey. With traditional libidinousness, Harvard sang Morely's Say, dear, will you not have me, The Old Maid's Song (from Pulaski County, Ky.) and Randall Thompson's Tarantella. The latter featured both a sensitive rendering of the accompaniment by Philip Kelsey and the perfect concordance of a police siren with a third-inversion F-seven chord, giving Cambridge the world's only police department with perfect pitch...

Author: By Robert G. Kopelson, | Title: Harvard, Princeton Glee Clubs | 11/11/1967 | See Source »

...also learned, and taught other artists, how to impress the forms of textiles and other materials upon the plate to provide textural effects. He devised techniques for softening outlines, reproducing the fluffiness of a cloud, the delicacy of a veil, a swirl of movement as in his Tarantella. His discoveries and inventions opened up what was virtually a new realm of art: he showed that etching need not be merely a method of reproducing a drawing but an independent art form in itself, capable of effects that brushes or crayons could not achieve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Wizard of Atelier 17 | 12/28/1962 | See Source »

...appeared in native costume and a kerchief, and kept time to the music with a little tambourine. And back at the villa, serenaders filled the night sky with their songs-Torna a Surriento, 0 sole mio, and Maria, Marl. There was even a lullaby composed just for Caroline, called Tarantella Ravellese. It lost something in translation but nothing in sentiment: A welcome like this we From Ravello must give to you, Returning to America, and happy You remember Italy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Don't Forget... | 9/7/1962 | See Source »

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