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fairy
In folklore, any of a race of supernatural beings who have magic powers and sometimes meddle in human affairs. Some have been described as of human size, while others are "little people" only a few inches high. The term was first used in medieval Europe. Fairy lore is especially common in Ireland, Cornwall, Wales, and Scotland. Though usually beneficent in modern children's stories, the fairies of the past were powerful and sometimes dangerous beings who could be friendly, mischievous, or cruel, depending on their whim. Fairies were thought to be beautiful, to live much longer than human beings, and to lack souls. They sometimes carried off human infants and left changelings as substitutes. They occasionally took human lovers, but to enter fairyland was perilous for humans, who were obliged to remain forever if they ate or drank there. See also leprechaun.


Faure
President of the French Third Republic (1895-99). A successful industrialist in Le Havre, he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies (1881). After serving in several cabinet posts, he was elected president of France in an unexpected victory that was a rebuff to the political left. He opposed reopening the case of A. Dreyfus, the dominating issue of his presidency, and his position encouraged agitation from both left and right political factions. He died suddenly, and his funeral was the scene of a confrontation between pro- and anti-Dreyfus groups.


-->Fauré

French composer. Born into the minor aristocracy, he enrolled at age 9 in a Paris music school, where he studied with C. Saint-Saë ns and remained 11 years. He held the prestigious organist positions at the churches of St. Sulpice (1871-74) and the Madeleine (1896-1905). In 1896 he also became professor of composition at the Paris Conservatoire, where he taught such students as M. Ravel and N. Boulanger. He served as its director 1905-20. In 1909 he accepted the presidency of the Socié té Musicale Indé pendante, a group of dissident young composers. His works include the operas Promé thé e (1900), Pé né lope (1913), and Masques et bergamasques (1919), the orchestral suite Pellé as et Mé lisande (1898), two piano quartets (1879, 1886), numerous piano Nocturnes and Barcarolles, a famous Requiem (1900), and many beautiful songs.


Gary
City (pop., 1996 est.: 111,000), NW Indiana. Located at the S end of Lake Michigan, it was laid out by the U.S. Steel Corp. in 1906. Gary prospered until a decline in the steel industry in the 1980s led to plant closings. City revitalization efforts were introduced in the 1990s. It was the scene, in the early 20th cent., of a development in public education when William A. Wirt (1874-1938) established the work-study-play school, popularly known as the platoon school.


Jarry
French writer. He went to Paris to live on his inheritance at 18; after exhausting it, he led a life of calculated buffoonery. His farce Ubu Roi ...

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