Word: welsh
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Soviet-era Russian cop novel Gorky Park, has written the most interesting and richly textured crime story of the season. What is unexpected about Rose (Random House; 364 pages; $25) is its setting: not the disorder of present-day Russia but the rigidly stratified society of a Welsh coal-mining town toward the end of the 19th century. As must be true in a period thriller, the setting drives the plot and makes the crime--in this case, the disappearance and presumed murder of a young and idealistic clergyman--seem inevitable. As Smith tells it, the town of Wigan...
...Rights and Democracy: Rawls and Habermas in Dialogue"; James B. Loeffler '96 for "A Gilgul fun a Nigun: Jewish Musicians in New York, 1881-1945"; Nathan E. Lump '96 for "'Thus there are devils, there are spirits': Genre, Personal Experience, and Belief in Folkloristics and the Words of a Welsh Storyteller"; Elizabeth C. Marlantes '96 for "From the Mud Hut to the Parthenon: Edith Wharton's Search for the Ideal Home"; and James N. Miller '96 for "'Between the Boycotters and the Liftgivers': A Comparative History of the Bus Boycotts in Montgomery, Alabama and Johannesburg, South Africa...
...surprising as it may seem. Riverdance depends on far-flung Irish communities for both its personnel (only 30 of the troupe are native-born Irish) and its core audience. The traditional art that Riverdance draws on still flourishes around the world, mostly through contests--not unlike Welsh singing competitions...
According to the event program, a Memorial Hall dinner in the early 1900s included mock turtle soup, fried codfish and pork scraps, Welsh rarebit, stewed kidneys in wine sauce, canvas back ducks, lamb tongues and canned corn, with mince pie for dessert...
...have started this week but were postponed until Oct. 30 after Simpson hired a new attorney, civil litigator Robert Baker. It's rare for acquitted criminal defendants to be hit with such suits, which carry no jail time but could result in multimillion-dollar damage judgments. Explains Professor Welsh White of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law: "Most criminal defendants, unlike O.J. Simpson, do not have the kind of assets that would be worth pursuing...