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...blic/bh_home.html Bolivar, Simon Simon Bolivar (1783-1830) is a Latin American folk hero, revered for having been a revolutionary freedom fight... ...a) as late as 50 years ago, during and after the second world war. The Italian folk dance, "Tarantella" is related to tarantism. It was played ... ...tus' dance". Other sources say that the blasphemous frolickers drowned. Manic dances - sometimes in the form of ecstatic but structured ritual... ...ged to female adults. Gein quickly became a cult figure and the butt of moralizing folk tales and "Geiners", macabre jokes. His farm and belongings... ...y of the Jews - was not meant to allude to the subjugation of the Italian people to Austrian rule. Only after Italy was unified in 1861, did Verdi ... ...d Verdi was "recruited", his earlier work deliberately recast as subversively anti-Austrian and nationalistic. A series of successful operas - ...
...ly. God appears to be unaware of the work of an important, though eccentric, Czech-Austrian mathematical logician, Kurt Gödel (1906-1978). A passin... ...emotions, and cognitions - into a coherent bundle of identity. Dan speaks, drinks, dances, talks, and makes love - but throughout that time, he is ... ...h that. Note - Godel's Theorems The work of an important, though eccentric, Czech- Austrian mathematical logician, Kurt Gödel (1906-1978) dealt wit... ...es. In the background there is the crying game that is Balkanian music: liturgy and folk and elegy combined. The smells are heavy with muskular perf...
...emotions, and cognitions - into a coherent bundle of identity. Dan speaks, drinks, dances, talks, and makes love - but throughout that time, he is ... ...ding Change" - "the ideology of comfort and the tyranny of custom." The much quoted Austrian economist, Joseph Schumpeter coined the phrase "creativ... ...e American Psychiatric Association) - in what way do they differ from us, "normal" folks? This is why the insanity defense often sits ill with ment... ...arcissist who regards himself as the benefactor of the poor, a member of the common folk, the representative of the disenfranchised, the champion of... ...ers of these couples tend to define themselves as each other's best friends. It is folk wisdom to state that the first three types of dyad arrangem... ...h that. Note - Godel's Theorems The work of an important, though eccentric, Czech- Austrian mathematical logician, Kurt Gödel (1906-1978) dealt wit... ...ly. God appears to be unaware of the work of an important, though eccentric, Czech-Austrian mathematical logician, Kurt Gödel (1906-1978). A passin...
...al Travel and the Past Lives Scam Pg 1777 The Undead in Myths and Legend and Folklore and Books Pg 1777 The Secret Existence of the Undead Pg 1780... ...ituals. Simply custom-fit a rationalized Myth, together with legends, sagas, folk-tales, fairytales, rituals, traditions, customs… which becomes you... ...eativity feed and support each other. When the community as a whole sings and dances differently and creatively every day… and each individual does ... ... And still be proud of themselves as decent, rational scientific, God-fearing folk: obeying Darwin’s famous Law of Natural Selection… or God’s Will,... ...gatherer.’ What caused WW1? The 1 st World War did not start because an Austrian archduke was assassinated by some nameless anarchist who was ... ...nated by some nameless anarchist who was fighting to free his Serbia from the Austrian Empire’s benevolent rule. That was only the excuse. All the... ...ing was friendly with was with his Royal equals the Russian Royal Family, the Austrian Royal Family, The Greek Royal Family, the German Royal family,... ... raped cultures. The lowest brutes, the biggest cowards. Compare the folk dances of Spain to the ones of Greece. In Spain it is the women who st... ...the women who strut, not the men. The man simply follows her lead. In Greek dances; the women are not even allowed to participate in this age-old ...
...os, his heavy drinking, then the darkness and torches, the wild games and dances higher up the mountain... “I shouldn’t have gone with him! I should... ... a birthday. It should have been a happy day. There were garlands, songs, dances... Then, someone came to me, brimming with the amusing story: Kleis... ...... Long are their ways of living, honey in their bread, and in their dances their footsteps twirl, twirling light... P Fragment of talk: “We ... ...icry, spoken somewhat under her breath, takes in the townspeople, theatre folk, the Athenian star, Alcaeus, Gogu, the girls. But, because it is kindl... ...the château, again royalty. Three hundred guests, I hear: Germans, Dutch, Austrian, Swiss, two or three British, a Greek potentate; the majority wil... ...protection. Onlookers came out of the alleys as well as the palace. Alley folk jeered. They shouted “Christ the Juggler;” they called Him “El Puto”.... ... four are difficult to appraise as we walk along Henley Street. The local folk have never heard the creak of chariot wheels. Lonely...I have been lo...
...gientem circuit hastam. -- LUCAN, lib. vi. 220. Even so the wound-enraged Austrian beare, On whom a Moore hath thir'ld his slinged speare, Wheeles ... ...M Montaigne's Essays hand, to change in their attires, in their gestures, dances, exercises, and songs, from one forme to another: And to remove the... ...re not sufficiently strong in their legs to march on foot. Even as in our dances, those base conditioned men that keepe dancing schooles, because th... ...otions. And some Ladies make a better shew of their countenances in those dances, wherein are divers changes, cuttings, turnings, and agitations of ... ...hould be strange from a wise man. Let us then question to what years yong folke may be beloved.' These two last Stoicke places, and upon this purpos... ... affectui suo, aut alieno obnoxiæ: 'Neither liable to their own nor other folkes affection.' Thinking, according to Lysias perswasions in Plato, they... ...ares, and businesses: and lastly to be cured by chance of place, as sicke folkes use that otherwise cannot get health.' We make it seldome to shocke...
...oor Jack of approaching peril; on another, she lays aside her fishy scales and dances on the beach, while the wily peasant, unheedful of his peril, wa... ...for a grandson of Louis XIV; the latter, that Leopold I might place thereon an Austrian prince. The dying King had, it is said, made a will in favor o... ...d wrestling matches between the best athletes of the district, and of singular dances which were performed by the men alone. After these were conclude... ...ch, if it were possible, would more explicitly convey the same ideas. In these dances they keep time with an exactness which is scarcely excelled by t... ...pipes were liberally given, and the sailors made glad the hearts of the simple folk by presenting them with old clothing in great abundance, for every...
...ng for Italy—like a thing underground! My father did something against the Austrians, when he was a young man. Would not I have done it? I am sure I w... ...spaper, of my father’s friends and old companions shot and murdered by the Austrians. He read it in the evening, after we had a quiet day. I thought h... ...at I want is to be an accurate singer. My music-master was a German—not an Austrian—oh, no!—I’m sure he was not. At least, I don’t think so, for I lik... ...ing precipitated, nose foremost, upon the pavement. Then, again, as gentle-folks had good experi- ence of, the young ones in London were twice as cunn... ...visible bloom that had come upon Emilia, and pacing with her be- tween the dances, said: “Now you will come to Italy, I think.” She paused before answ... ... head and firm planting of her feet as the girl paraded the room after the dances in which she could not join. Previous to this evening, Georgiana had...
...rd confidentially that he was going to join the Duke of Wellington’s army, folks mistook him for a great personage, a commissary-general, or a governm... ...of Boney’s that’s fit to hold a candle to Wittgenstein. Then there are the Austrians, they are five hundred thousand if a man, and they are within ten... ...a. The bands of the regiments were making music at all hours. The greatest folks of England walked in the Park —there was a perpetual military festiva... ...so, determined to cut their new ac- quaintance in Bond Street, these great folks went to eat his dinner at Brussels, and condescending to make him pay... ...ainst any force Boney can bring into the field,” Mr. Sedley objected; “the Austrians and the Russians are on their march. He must, he shall be crushed... ... They were six to one at Montmirail, and he scattered them like sheep. The Austrian army is coming, but with the Empress and the King of Rome at its h... ...ile! She is of all the societies, of all the balls—of the balls—yes—of the dances, no; and yet how interesting and pretty this fair creature looks sur...
...e tinselled dancers and poor old rouged tumblers, while the light-fingered folk are operating upon their pockets behind. Y es, this is Van- ity Fair; ... ...atest care by the artist; the Dobbin Figure, though apparently clumsy, yet dances in a very amusing and natural manner; the Little Boys’ Dance has bee... ... of comic and sentimental ballads, who charmed the ears there; the country dances, formed by bouncing cockneys and cockneyesses, and executed amidst j... ... of a brother of his.” CHAPTER XI Arcadian Simplicity BESIDES THESE HONEST FOLKS at the Hall (whose simplicity and sweet rural purity surely show the ... ...meaning your humble servant; and he did me the honour to dance two country-dances with me. He gets on pretty gaily with the young Squires, with whom h... ...,” says George, making his point at once. “One can’t live with these great folks for nothing; and my purse, sir, look at it”; and he held up a little ... ...id. “The French are very strong, sir,” Dobbin went on. “The Rus- sians and Austrians will be a long time before they can bring their troops down. We s... ...of Boney’s that’s fit to hold a candle to Wittgenstein. Then there are the Austrians, they are five hundred thousand if a man, and they are within ten... ...ainst any force Boney can bring into the field,” Mr. Sedley objected; “the Austrians and the Russians are on their march. He must, he shall be crushed...
...erchant.” “Oh,” said Ermentrude, “you need not fear for him! I saw his own folk return and lift him up. But what is he to thee or to us?” “I am a burg... ...e had no such gear as this!” “So I supposed,” said Eberhard coolly. “Young folks! young folks!” laughed the friar, changing his tone, and holding up h... ...would she could go alone, nor make us show our poverty to the swollen city folk, and listen to their endearments. I charge thee, Friedel, do as I do; ... ...cate measures.” 139 Yo n g e Master Gottfried looked perplexed, for these dances were matters of great punctilio. It was but seven years since the Lo... ...onsented to figure alone with Sir Kasimir in one of the majestic, graceful dances performed by a single couple before a gazing assembly. So she let hi... ...en aquiline nose, a lip only begin- ning to lengthen to the characteristic Austrian feature, an expression always lofty, sometimes dreamy, and yet at ... ... well as thou or I, and thou shalt hear him speak as becomes the son of an Austrian hunter.’ That Romish king is a knight of knights, Friedel. I could... ...s Kaisar? It is but of his wonted madness that he is here at all, when his Austrian states must be all astray for want of him. No, no; I would rather ... ...h! there they are. Quick-eyed Vittoria has seen the caval- cade first, and dances off to tell Ermentrude and Stine time enough to prepare their last b...
... as shaving stick—Brown’s euxesis, wish I had some—past Tanugamanono, a bush village—see into the houses as I pass—they are open sheds scattered on a ... ...as off early to the Mission, where the politics are thrilling just now. The native pastors (to every one’s surprise) have moved of themselves in the m... ... I forgot in talking of Saturday to tell of one incident which will particularly interest my mother. I met Dr. D. from Savaii, and had an age-long t... ...ciety—he is intelligent, pleasant, even witty, a gentleman—and you know how that at- taches—I loathe to seem to play a base part; but the poor natives... ... we were sadly muddied once more. It was 1 P. M. when we arrived, the canoe having beaten us by about five minutes, so we made fair time over our bog... ...e, Lloyd and I, and drove in great style, with a native out- rider, to the prison; a huge gift of ava and tobacco under the seats. The prison is now u... ...don’t know that he would show his best, but he is a re- markably fine fellow, in every department of life. We have other visitors in port. A Count Fes...
...e tinselled dancers and poor old rouged tumblers, while the light-fingered folk are operating upon their pockets behind. Y es, this is Van- ity Fair; ... ...atest care by the artist; the Dobbin Figure, though apparently clumsy, yet dances in a very amusing and natural manner; the Little Boys’ Dance has bee... ... of comic and sentimental ballads, who charmed the ears there; the country dances, formed by bouncing cockneys and cockneyesses, and executed amidst j... ... of a brother of his.” CHAPTER XI Arcadian Simplicity BESIDES THESE HONEST FOLKS at the Hall (whose simplicity and sweet rural purity surely show the ... ...meaning your humble servant; and he did me the honour to dance two country-dances with me. He gets on pretty gaily with the young Squires, with whom h... ...,” says George, making his point at once. “One can’t live with these great folks for nothing; and my purse, sir, look at it”; and he held up a little ... ...id. “The French are very strong, sir,” Dobbin went on. “The Rus- sians and Austrians will be a long time before they can bring their troops down. We s...
...his piccolo. He was esteemed a good player: was in request at concerts and dances, also at swell balls. So the vivid piping sound tickled the darkness... ..., that they’ve exterminated all the peoples worth knowing. I can’t do with folk who teem by the billion, like the Chinese and Japs and orientals altog... ...ne, or something like that. When you’re only killing time like the rest of folks, before time kills you.” Lilly did not answer. It was not yet seven o... ...y. Well, and very necessary, too; otherwise we might be where the wretched Austrians are. Instead of which—how smooth his hostess’ sapphires! “Of cour... ...out it, privately?” “I didn’t feel much. I didn’t know what to feel. Other folks did such a lot of feeling, I thought I’d better keep my mouth shut.” ... ... his head looked hard and rather military: he would have been taken for an Austrian officer, or even a German, had it not been for the, peculiar Itali...
... I got lost in the woods about a mile from the hotel, and presently fell into a train of dreamy thought about animals which talk, and kobolds, and enc... ...as not a German in that party who did not understand English perfectly. It is curious how widespread our language is in Germany. After a while some of... ...al ones as soon as he had soundly trounced the authors of them. He was prompt to take up any poor devil’s quarrel and risk his neck to right him. The ... ...the distressed bayings of his dogs, and the solemn chanting of the monks; it rose again, with a jubilant ring, and mingled itself with the country son... ...ead Man’s Lake, at the foot of the Sidelhorn. This lonely spot, once used for an extempore burying-place, after a sangui- nary battue between the Fren...
... part of the father and son—rector and curate; and that the other clerical folk, ladies especially, who called on us, spoke of Mrs. F . C. Fordyce wit... ... the passage, but that was just before the old Squire was took for death,— folks said that was always the way before any of the family died—’if you’ll... ...mmunicative, and made us ac- quainted with the opinions of ‘they Earlscoom folk’ with a freedom not to be found in an elder or a native. Moreover, he ... ...in many of these, like the boy he was. I could play quadrilles and country dances, and now and then a reel—nobody thought of waltzes—and the three cou... ...iled his enforced leisure with long letters to my father on home business, Austrian misgovernment, and the Italian Church and people, full of shrewd o...
...our Russian Empire. This man travels about the Russian land and meets with folk of every condition—from the nobly-born to the humble toiler. Him I hav... ...a few pages of the work, and then to recall his own life, and the lives of folk with whom he has come in contact, and everything which he has seen wit... ...s remote, 12 Dead Souls both by life and by education, from the circle of folk which I have pictured in my book, but who knows the life of the circle... ...e in the Seven Years’ War, met with disaster when attempting to assist the Austrians against the French in 1799. 104 Dead Souls may be destined to be... ...he meadows were lifting up their voice in song. In the same way had choral dances begun to be weaved in the village, and ev- erywhere that the eye tur... ...ould take place in the village a singing of songs and a weaving of country dances; and so shapely and buxom were the maid- ens—maidens of a type hard ... ...and everywhere there are insanely expensive restaurants, masked balls, and dances to the music of gipsy bands? To abstain when every one else is indul...
... con- 12 D. H. Lawrence vention. The elegance is very important, and very Austrian. One might almost imagine the young man had taken up this striking... ...flowers and romance, like the picture in the T ate Gallery. ‘Spring in the Austrian T yrol’ is to our minds a vision of pristine loveliness. It contai... ...ope high above the lake, winding beautifully and gracefully forward to the Austrian frontier, where it ends: high up on the lovely swinging road, in t... ...of sneering irony on an original good nature. He is well-to- do, and gives dances to which only the looser women go, with these reckless young men. He... ...er. He has a wooden leg, from the 87 Twilight in Italy knee-joint. Yet he dances well, and is inordinately proud. He is fierce as a bird, and hard wi... ...ins,’ they said at once, ‘they are people of little education. Rather wild folk.’ And they spoke with good-humoured contempt. I thought of Paolo, and ...
...e thus blocked in a corner of my cabin by this speechless crowd: and a kind of rage to think they were beyond the reach of articulate communication, l... ...lands, I had never again so menacing a reception; were I to meet with such to-day, I should be more alarmed and tenfold more surprised. The majority o... ... may risk, not without hope, an attempt upon the others. And again, not only is Polynesian easy to smatter, but interpreters abound. Missionaries, tra... ..., and I am sure it is far more becoming than the ignoble European practice of tight-lacing among women. And now it has been found needful to forbid th... ... at the ceremony, which was primitively simple. The two Mrs. Stevensons and Mr. Osbourne, along with Paaaeua, his wife, and an adopted child of theirs... ... at Atuona, Paaaeua would have held himself bound to establish us upon his land, and to set apart young men for our service, and trees for our support... ...ese disasters reached, after great hardships, the isle of Hiva-oa. Some of these men vowed they would never again confront the chances of the sea; but... ...yond what she had meant, and her male assistants made a feint of driving her away like one who had disgraced herself. Similar af- fectations accompany...