Word: legends
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Good Bad Luck. Over the years Jenkins has cloaked his operations in such secrecy that an intriguing mixture of fact and legend has grown up around his empire building. Born May 18, 1878 in Shelbyville, Tenn., Jenkins showed up in Aguascalientes, Mexico in 1901, dead broke. He took a job as a railway mechanic for 50? a day. In 1906, a U.S. missionary group staked him to enough capital to launch an itinerant haberdashery business...
Where once-so literature and legend have it-there existed in Manhattan waterfront saloons where savage jack-tars gargled on rotten whisky, and at the same time there were gilded salons where dissipating patricians drank champagne from slippers, most such extremes have disappeared, and the nightclubs of New York today are relentlessly middle class. With some outstanding exceptions, they are also for the birds, including night owls and predatory hawks. And the birds go there...
...removing the Christmas legend from the tradition of sweetness and light, Orff had given all the good lines to the forces of darkness. When the witches were offstage, the hour-long pageant was static, lacked the exciting, full-blooded drama found in most of his work, including his Easter play, Comoedia de Christi Resurrectione. But the musical backgrounds were compelling, and the enthusiastic première audience demanded 15 curtain calls...
...style is graceful and frequently inspired. Milne's names and phrases take on a rich new intonation in Lenard's Latin. Heffalumpum (for Heffalump) sounds like the name of a dirty German town transliterated by Tacitus, lor (for Eeyore) might be a monster out of a Persian legend...
Camelot. While failing to live up to its extravagant expectations and to the richness of the Arthurian legend, the Lerner-Loewe work has sumptuous sets, a few fine songs, some stylishly medieval choreography and an expert performance by Richard Burton...