...d out of the Simpson household in July 1936. Nor was Wallis the Prince's first American liaison. He contemplated marrying one, Thelma Furness, ... ...he goings-on, reported noting almost until the King's abdication. The European and American press, in contrast, provided extensive coverage of the ... ...ser/gr/public/bh_home.html Bolivar, Simon Simon Bolivar (1783-1830) is a Latin American folk hero, revered for having been a revolutionary free... ...tarantism. It was played for days on end to manic patients by groups of travelling musicians as a kind of music therapy. The patient also had to se... ....com/def/f106.htm http://3.1911encyclopedia.org/F/FE/FELO_DE_SE.htm The "winter blues" are supposed to cause suicidal ideation. There is even a ...

...s? Even the ones they claim to have been dictated by gods or aliens? Even if American copyright law requires “an author,” presumably a human one? 9 Ca... ...nt producers of culture will be able to assemble vast teams of animators and musicians and software gurus and meld their labors into a videotape that ... ...ecentralized and iconoclastic cultural ferment in which independent artists, musicians, and writers can take their unique visions, histories, poems, o... ...r the films of the Second World War, or footage on the daily lives of African-Americans during segregation, or the music of the Great Depression, or th... ...hey were successful. 36 As Yochai Benkler puts it, Alice Randall, an African American woman, was ordered by a government official not to publish her cr... ... How would the great musical traditions of the twentieth century—jazz, soul, blues, rock—have developed under today’s copyright regime? Would they hav... ... regime? Would they have developed at all? How does the law apply to the new musicians, remixers, and samplers who offer their work on the In- ternet?... ... musician, “his own sound” was the product of a number of musical traditions—blues and gospel particularly. It is out of those traditions that “I Got ... ...s Brown, and Aretha Franklin. If one can pin- point a moment when gospel and blues began to merge into a secular version of gospel song, it was in 195...

...d, impressive, highly pictorial.” JOE KNOEFLER in the L.A. Times: “...an American writer gifted with...perception and sensitivity.” FRANK TANNENBA... ...dence have now been established at V VOICES FROM THE PAST xiv the American Heritage Center of the University of Wyoming, the Nettie Lee Bens... ...Heritage Center of the University of Wyoming, the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection of the University of Texas, and the Rare Books Collect... ...e community...never mentioning that our fleet was rotted! Presently, the musicians and dancers wandered among us and the party went on. After many ... ...: “the convivialists,” Serfo has named it. To help pamper Gyrinno, we had musicians in the courtyard. The air was so warm, so languid, nobody wished... ...ng, men falling, dying, their helmets of fear, helmets of pain...yellows, blues, greys, reds. On Friday, June 6, 1505, I began to paint the Anghiari... ...horsemen, two hundred mules, mounted archers, stablemen, the Chamberlain, musicians, clergy, wizards, cooks, doctors...the archers wore black and re...

...inhabitants of the west of France called all the soldiers of the Republic “Blues.” This nickname came originally from their blue and red uniforms, the... ...still so fresh as to render a description superfluous. A detachment of the Blues was therefore on this occasion escorting a body of recruits, or rathe... ...of the Directory and the movement of this troop of men under escort of the Blues. It may not be superfluous to add that these finely patriotic Directo... ...her, and her lips seemed to quiver on the verge of pronouncing it. Like an American Indian, she watched every muscle of the face of her enemy, tied, a... ...ho must be satisfied—he’s here!” he added, striking his stomach. “Have the musicians come?” said the marquis, in a con- temptuous tone, turning to Mad... ... impatience of the dancers by dis- pensing flatteries to each in turn. The musicians were tuning their instruments and the dancing was about to begin,... ...tiated into the secret, began to under- stand its nature, so that when the musicians gave the signal for the dancing to begin no one moved. “Mademoise...

...erned with. I had from far back mentally projected a certain sort of young American as more the “heir of all the ages” than any other young person wha... ...panish dancer, understood to be at that moment the delight of the town, an American reciter, the joy of a kindred people, an Hungarian fiddler, the wo... ... in short, that now troubled her—though certainly, as Europe was the great American sedative, the failure was to some extent to be noted: it was the s... ...welled for the midsummer daylight; and she was all in the palest pinks and blues. She didn’t think, at this pass, that she could “come” anywhere—Milly... ..., but visibly unused—it defied familiarity—and furnished in the ugliest of blues. He had immediately looked with interest at the closed doors, and Kat... ...me ar- rived; and with this call on her attention, the further call of her musicians ushered by Eugenio, but personally and separately welcomed, and t... ...ober—that night when she was in white, when she had people there and those musicians—she com- 404 The Wings of the Dove mitted him to my care. It was... ...again; the air was like a clap of hands, and the scattered pinks, yellows, blues, sea-greens, were like a hanging-out of vivid stuffs, a laying-down o...

...lin Avenue & 3d St., N.E Zenith Omar Gribble, Esq., 376 North American Building, Zenith. Dear Mr. Gribble: Your letter of the twentieth t... ...f-timbered, with Tudor leaded casements, an oriel, a somewhat musicianless musicians’-gallery, and tapes- tries believed to illustrate the granting of... ...ith you tightwads!” and guided Paul to one of the small tables beneath the musicians’- 54 Babbitt gallery. He felt guilty. At the Zenith Athletic Clu... ...ompson, the old-fashioned, lean Yankee, rugged, traditional, stage type of American business man, and Babbitt, the plump, smooth, efficient, up-to-the... ...uch amused by the antiquated provincialism as any proper Englishman by any American. He knew himself to be of a breeding altogether more esthetic and ... ...ceful tappers. They run 1-2 under the wire. Provin and Adams will blow the blues in their laugh skit “Hootch Mon!” Something doing, boys. Listen to wh... ...son, and Mayor Prout. The young negro boot- black hummed “The Camp Meeting Blues” and polished in rhythm to his tune, drawing the shiny shoe-rag so ta...

...ffices to an empty church—’the voice of one crying in the wilderness.’ You Americans are not good churchmen. Sundays you sleep— you read the newspaper... ...cists, repeated from page to page with wearying insistence. “I, too, am an American Citizen. S. D.,” “As the T wig is Bent the T ree is Inclined,” “Tr... ... joists of the walls; the last lantern hung, the last nail driven into the musicians’ platform. The sun set. There was a great scurry to have supper a... ...ittling a wax candle over the floor to make it slip- pery for dancing. The musicians arrived, the City Band of Bonneville— Annixter having managed to ... ...his hands from his pockets. But abruptly there was an interruption. In the musicians’ corner a scuffle broke out. A chair was overturned. There was a ... ... State and city are, after all, only a little more addle-headed than other Americans.” It was his favourite topic. Sure of the interest of his hearers... ... dred tints and colours—opalescent, purple, wine-red, clouded pinks, royal blues, saffrons, violets so dark as to be almost black. Under foot, the car...

...nce of smoking during these twilight prowls with the threepenny packets of American cigarettes then just ap- pearing in the world. My life centred upo... ...ng is a necessary function in a nation. The Romans broke up upon that. The Americans fade out amidst their successes. Eugenics—” “That wasn’t Eugenics... ... rotating bookcase containing an excellent col- lection of the English and American humorists from Three Men in a Boat to the penultimate Mark T wain.... ...by throwing open folding doors, and it was all carefully done in greys and blues, for the most part with real Sheraton supplemented by Sheraton so ski... ...woodsmen are off the stage. These are the brilliant ones—the smart and the blues… . They cost a lot of money, you know.” So far Mrs. Redmondson, but t... ... upon Margaret one evening. She was just back from the display of some new musicians at the Hartsteins. I remember she wore a dress of golden satin, v... ...ked in the of- fice. She made a white-robed, dusky figure against the deep blues of my big window. I sat at my desk and tore a quill pen to pieces as ...

... , and his almond eyes almost closed as he did so. There were two or three American men, in black coats, rather yellow and dry of skin: they were theo... ... tall and slim. He held himself with a deliberate grace. Weeks, one of the American students, seeing him alone, went up and began to talk to him. The ... ...one, went up and began to talk to him. The pair were oddly contrasted: the American very neat in his black coat and pepper-and-salt trou- sers, thin a... ...Philip, brooding over these mat- ters, that in the true painters, writers, musicians, there was a power which drove them to such complete absorption i... ...ow that if you put an electric blue in the window it’ll kill all the other blues?” He looked round the department ferociously, and his eye fell upon P...

...ime fellows to eat it, too! Billingsgate, V auxhall, Cinqbars, Buff of the Blues, and half-a-dozen more of the best fellows in town. And what do you t... ... it, depend upon it: it is a sad life, a poor pastime. Mr. Dickens, in his American book, tells of the prisoners at the silent prison, how they had or... ...en subject to the entreaties, nay, to the insults, of Cornet Fipkin of the Blues, who was in prison at the suit of Linsey, Woolsey and Co., and who ha... ... his heyday of fashion was gone, Sir George still held his place among the musicians of the old school, con- ducted occasionally at the Ancient Concer... ...g, he pointed to our admirable English composer, Sir George Thrum. The two musicians were friends to the last, and Sir George has still the identical ...

...m, with crimson covered benches, and wax candles in glass chandeliers. The musicians were securely confined in an elevated den, and quadrilles were be... ...eart and soul, with one of the two great parties that divided the town—the Blues and the Buffs. Now the Blues lost no opportunity of opposing the Buff... ...y of opposing the Buffs, and the Buffs lost no opportunity of opposing the Blues; and the conse quence was, that whenever the Buffs and Blues met tog... ...ty question. If the Buffs proposed to new skylight the mar ket place, the Blues got up public meetings, and denounced the proceeding; if the Blues pr... ...f steps, leading to the house door, which was guarded on either side by an American aloe in a green tub, the sedan chair stopped. Mr. Pickwick and his... ...turn both Mr. Jingle and his attendant, down the flight of steps, into the American aloe tubs that stood beneath. ‘Having discharged my duty, Sir,’ sa...

...hour being still early, the whole view was exquisitely light and airy; the blues and greens of sky and tree were in- tense but not sultry. As they dre... ... worn round their heads, and primitive carvings coloured bright greens and blues. Somehow or other, as fashions do, the fashion spread; an old monaste... ...o be recognised, and held in respect. Meanwhile as they stood talking, the musicians were unwrapping their instruments, and the violin was repeating a... ...“which shall it be?” “Balzac,” said Rachel, “or have you the Speech on the American Revolution, Uncle Ridley?” “The Speech on the American Revolution?... ... she darted and ejaculated he gave Rachel a sketch of the history of South American art. He would deal with one of his wife’s exclamations, and then r... ...essness to think or to look. She was turning over the slippery pages of an American magazine, when the hall door swung, a wedge of light fell upon the...

.................................. ........................ 43 A CURE FOR THE BLUES ........................................................................ ...ewport, Rhode Is land, Holy Land of High Society, ineffable Domain of the American Aristocracy. As a rule they spent a part of every Sab bath—after ... ... he whispered the decree. CHAPTER X Was it Heaven? Or Hell? A CURE FOR THE BLUES BY COURTESY OF M R. C ABLE I came into possession of a sin gular b... ...hat clearly. So the two sit together in the orchestra, in the midst of the musicians. This does not seem to be good art. In the first place, the girl ... ...ed with the circumstances,” replied Elfonzo, “and as I am to be one of the musicians upon that interesting occasion, I should be much gratified if you... ...not get any great pleasure out of them, as a rule. Now the trouble with an American paper is that it has no discrimination; it rakes the whole earth f... ...s it strike you? 167 Mark Twain HOW TO TELL A STORY The Humorous Story an American Development.—Its Dif ference from Comic and Witty Stories I DO ...

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...map. Con trast the physical condition of the Irish with that of the North American Indian, or the South Sea Islander, or any other savage race before... ...t perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whoop ing cough. A... ...unless it be in Milwaukee, as those splendid articles, English, French, or American prints, ginghams, muslins, etc., gathered from all quarters both o... ...it alone in the house all night and most of the day without ennui and “the blues”; but he does not realize that the student, though in the house, is s... ... fully with a calm trust in the future. When there were several bands of musicians, it sounded as if all the village was a vast bellows and all the ... ...67 due to the light and air they contain, and the most transparent is the bluest. Ice is an interesting subject for contemplation. They told me that ...

...the map. Contrast the physical condition of the Irish with that of the North American Indian, or the South Sea Islander, or any other savage race befo... ...; but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough. A... ..., unless it be in Milwaukie, as those splendid articles, English, French, or American prints, ginghams, muslins, &c., gathered from all quarters both ... ... sit alone in the house all night and most of the day without ennui and “the blues;” but he does not realize that the student, though in the house, is... ...cheerfully with a calm trust in the future. When there were several bands of musicians, it sounded as if all the village was a vast bellows, and all t... ...ce is due to the light and air they contain, and the most transparent is the bluest. Ice is an interesting subject for contemplation. They told me tha...

...r Jacko, and comfort him till I come back.’ Jacko was a middle-sized South American monkey, and had been a pet of her husband’s. He was supposed to be... ...earth combine to exclude from their little games, under the designation of blues, or strong- minded women: a kind, if genuine, the least dangerous and... ...the young Habral had been awaiting her for ages. None so pol- ished as he! Musicians started up, the floors were ready, and torches beneath them!—ther...