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tom-tom

(Encyclopedia) tom-tom, name popularly applied to high-pitched hand drums, usually barrel-shaped and having either one or two drumheads of skin. They are tunable to specific pitches. Supposedly of…

Rabe, David

(Encyclopedia) Rabe, DavidRabe, Davidrāb [key], 1940–, American playwright, b. Dubuque, Iowa; grad. Loras College (B.A., 1962), Villanova Univ. (M.A., 1968). Rabe served in Vietnam (1965–67) and his…

Peter Pan: The Children are Carried off

Wendy's Story Do You Believe in Fairies? The Children are Carried off The pirate attack had been a complete surprise: a sure proof that the unscrupulous Hook had conducted it…

percussion instrument

(Encyclopedia) percussion instrument, any instrument that produces musical sound when its surface is struck with an implement (such as a mallet, stick, or disk) or with the hand. Perhaps the most…

T.S. Eliot: Portrait of a Lady, I

by T. S. Eliot III Among the smoke and fog of a December afternoon You have the scene arrange itself--as it will seem to do-- With "I have saved this afternoon for you"; And four wax…

Poem: Portrait of a Lady

13 - The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock Preludes - 15 Portrait of a Lady Thou hast committed-- Fornication: but that was in another country And besides, the wench is dead. -…