Word: woodcuts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Music Society in which he played a major role, Bartok, not yet appreciated by the musical world, retired in 1912 in order to make a thorough study of folk music, going as far afield as Biskra in 1913 in quest of Arabian music. In 1917, his "intellectual ballet" the "Woodcut Prince" was given a performance in Budapest, and when this was followed a year later by the opera "Bluebeard's Castle" both critics and public alike looked upon him with favor. He has continued to compose, in fact producing a violin concerto so recently that it was given its first...
...Woodcut. Canny Connecticut doesn't intend to freeze next winter, no matter how short the supplies of coal and oil. Governor Robert A. Hurley approved last week a drive to list all wood lots where residents can cut kindling and logs in their spare time now, for thorough seasoning before cold weather...
...pranced on many an ancient parchment. An old Flemish manuscript showed St. Margaret being disgorged Caesarean-wise by a repentant dragon who had swallowed her. A fox ogled out-of-reach grapes in the earliest extant copy of Aesop (circa 1000 A.D.). A 15th-Century German volume showed a woodcut of bewildered apes trying to light a fire with the aid of a glow worm (see cut), while birds jeered from a tree...
...those who dread the woodcut terrors of the Dance of Death or other bizarre inflections, and for whom all complex sanity is madness, David Smith will seem bewildering. But for those anxious to participate in his visions, there will come a stern pleasure in unraveling his thousand devices...