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apella
Ancient Spartan assembly, similar to the ecclesia of other Greek states. The apella, whose monthly meetings were open to citizens over 30, did not initiate proposals, and could only consider matters submitted by the ephors or the gerousia; voting was by shouts. Its business included treaties, wars, and succession; it named commanders, elected elders and ephors, and voted on changes in the laws.


Cabell
U.S. writer. Born in Richmond, Va. to a distinguished family, he attacked Amer. orthodoxies and institutions in his best-known novel, Jurgen (1919), a story replete with sexual symbolism. His other works, many of them allegories set in an imaginary medieval province, include The Cream of the Jest (1917), Beyond Life (1919), and The High Place (1923). Though much praised in the 1920s, his mannered style and skeptical view of human experience soon lost favor.


fabula
Drama of ancient Rome. Particular types included the fabula Atellana, the earliest form of native farce in ancient Italy; the fabula crepidata, a form of Roman tragedy based on Greek models; the fabula palliata, an ancient Roman comedy based on Greek New Comedy and treating a Greek subject; the fabula praetexta, an ancient Roman drama with a theme from Roman history or legend; and the fabula togata, a Roman comedy based on Greek models but featuring Roman life and dress.


Falla
Spanish composer. He studied with F. Pedrell, and conceived a powerful musical nationalism. His first major work was the opera La vida breve (1905). He lived in Paris 1907-14, where he imbibed the music of C. Debussy, M. Ravel, and others. The intensely Spanish ballet El amor brujo (1915) gained him further acclaim. The Spanish Civil War caused him to leave Spain for Argentina c.1938, and he never returned. His other works include Nights in the Gardens of Spain (1915), The Three-Cornered Hat (1919), the puppet opera El retablo de maese Pedro (1923; with F. Garc\u00ed a Lorca), a harpsichord concerto (1926), and the huge unfinished oratorio L'Atl\u00e1 ntida. He is regarded as the greatest Spanish composer of recent centuries.


favela
In Brazil, a slum or shantytown. A favela gets its start when squatters occupy vacant land at the edge of a city and construct shanties of salvaged or stolen materials. Communities form over time, often developing an array of social and religious organizations and forming associations to obtain such services as running water and electricity. Sometimes the favelados manage to gain title to the land and then are able to improve their homes. Because of crowding, unsanitary conditions, poor nutrition, and pollution, disease is rampant in the poorer favelas and infant mortality rates are high.


Magellan
Portuguese navigator and explorer. Born to the nobility, from 1505 Magellan served in expeditions to the E. Indies and Africa. Having twice asked King Manuel I for a higher ...

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