Word: though
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...open evidence of constraint, repression, or fear. Whatever it may be worth, money flows freely. The people are well dressed, well fed, fairly well housed. At parades, reviews, unveilings, cornerstone Mayings, a, busy, eager nation is always on its toes to cheer Mussolini, the King, and the flag, even though every mail box is sealed tight with steel baffles when the two heads of the Empire visit their loyal Milano. Bombs and infernal machines have exploded in these boxes. For ten days preceding Hitler's arrival no parcels will be delivered or handled in the cities...
...mountain folk of Kentucky, Tennessee and the Carolinas still follow customs and use much of the lingo of their early colonial ancestors. Though many of them are illiterate, they have handed down by word of mouth, from generation to generation, ballads and hymns that can be traced to Elizabethan England. Still popular among them are such hoary items as Sir Patrick Spens, Barbara Allen, Robin Hood and Little John...
...where symphonic music is concerned, Italy has been strangely unproductive. Though proverbially musical, and as hungry for opera as for pasta, the Italian public can hardly be dragged to a concert hall. Of Italy's thousands of composers, perhaps only one, the late Giuseppe Martucci, ever turned out a really respectable symphony...
...contemporary Italian orchestral composers, headed by the late Ottorino Respighi (Pini di Roma), lean-faced Ildebrando Pizzetti (Rondo Veneziano), gloomy, Venetian-born Gian Francesco Malipiero (Pause del Silenzio) and dapper, energetic Alfredo Casella (La Giara). Dominant influence on these composers was that of French Impressionists Debussy and Ravel, though Casella and Malipiero occasionally toddled in Stravinsky's footsteps...
...attend meetings with Royalist Leon Daudet, always mails in his vote. After lunch, the Academy's youngest member announces the prizewinner to waiting newspapermen. Within an hour red bands marked Prix Goncourt have been wrapped around copies of the winning book in Paris bookstores, because the Goncourt Prize, though it involves a small cash award, sells more books than any other literary prize in France, usually makes its winner the year's bestseller...