Word: tyrolean
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ballads of troubadours who wandered from manor house to manor house. E.S. captured the spirit of it; his saints and sinners, knights and ladies tiptoe through dainty Alpine primroses to dally on wattle fences. At times he was downright satirical. His Samson is a knave in a tunic and Tyrolean hat, his Delilah a Hausfrau who has slipped away for an afternoon assignation. As for St. Sebastian, E.S. portrays him peppered with arrows by a merry lot that looks for all the world like Robin Hood...
...prayed at the tomb of his greatuncle Eugen, toured historic parts of the city and had lunch in an old Tyrolean inn, then sped back to Germany. Though his public-relations man later reported that "His Imperial Highness was recognized and greeted with friendliness," few recalled seeing him. In fact, the only ones who seemed to care were secret policemen in two cars, who trailed him wherever he went and were relieved when he departed...
...taste. In the middle ground between classical music and rock 'n' roll, both of which abound in European record stores, are Portuguese fados, Neapolitan tenors, Scots pipers, Spanish flamencos, German beer songs, French chanteuses, Welsh miners, nightclub and music-hall performers, tin ny little village bands and Tyrolean yodelers. There are even some familiar U.S. singers (and songs) in unfamiliar languages...
...peripheral cultures, they are both keenly aware of, and distinctly amused by, more magnetic centers of civilization. Thus, a part of the show parodies national types ranging from Italian gondoliers to U.S. cowboys, from French amorists to supranational cool-jazz combos. In a beer garden, a band of Tyrolean-hatted minstrels is cleaving the air with Bavarian bonhomie, when suddenly the guitars are spitting like machine guns, a momentary lapse into the old Wehrmacht tunes of glory. In a sight gag of suspended comic torment, a girl blowing up a balloon reduces a Buckingham Palace guard from graven aplomb...
...Hollywood fixation with sex and violence, Sound of Music-like two other big hits, My Fair Lady and Mary Poppins-is refreshingly tuneful, colorful and cheerful. Exquisitely filmed in the Tyrolean Alps of Austria, it celebrates the real-life courage of the Trapp Family Singers and their escape from the Nazis in 1938. The children are charming, and so is the music, from the title song to My Favorite Things...