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… when she played excerpts of Gregorian chant and the madrigals and motets of Michael Praetorius, John Dowland, Giovanni … many other late-sixteenth- and early-seventeenth-century composers. These works all took root in my growing awareness … best show of my life Tuesday night and all thanks to the audience, a thousand Mennonites and their neighbors in a small …

… hair when she wept. That evening had been unpleasant again, comfortless, with her father scolding and scornfully crying …

… The New York Times Book Review and other periodicals is a useful convention. Somewhat surprisingly the lists … pages, striking in their voluminousness, in their depth and comprehensiveness. The reader sees that this book, so … scriptwriters, performers, producers. The Berlin audiences were “disproportionately” Jewish as well. In the …

… An Impossible Dream Come True Claiming the Dream: The Victorious Campaign of … publicized campaign for governor ever waged in Virginia. It also was probably the most erratic and the … on his law office wall: Hold fast to dreams For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird That cannot fly The dream …

… more precisely a birth, not a rebirth.” Certainly nothing comparable had happened before in the South that could … are the instruments of the historian. Typically history deals with groups rather than individuals—with nations, … begun to crush feudal England. The Histories and Tragedies of Shakespeare record the death of the old régime, and …