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Angles
Germanic people who, with the Jutes and Saxons, invaded England in the 5th cent. AD. According to Bede, their homeland was Angulus, traditionally identified as the Angeln district in Schleswig. They abandoned this area when they invaded Britain, where they settled in the kingdoms of Mercia, Northumbria, and E. and Middle Anglia. Their language is known as Englisc, and they gave their name to England.
Anglesey
Island (pop., 1995 est.: 67,000), Wales. The largest island in England or Wales, at 276 sq mi (715 sq km), Anglesey is known for its ancient history and its prehistoric and Celtic remains. By 100 BC the Celts had colonized the island, which became a famous Druid center and later a stronghold of resistance to the Romans. It finally fell to Agricola in AD 78. It was ruled by the princes of Wales in the 7th-13th cent., when it was taken by Edward I. Tourism is now an important part of the economy.
Eglevsky
U.S. (Russian-born) ballet dancer and teacher, considered the outstanding male dancer of his time. He left Russia as a child and studied in Paris, becoming a lead dancer with the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo at age 14. He moved to the U.S. in 1937. He danced with a number of companies before joining the New York City Ballet (1951-58), where he created leading roles in several of G. Balanchine's ballets, incl. Scotch Symphony and Caracole. He also taught at the School of Amer. Ballet. In 1958 he opened his own ballet school and in 1961 established the Eglevsky Ballet.
realism
In the visual arts, an aesthetic that promotes accurate, detailed, unembellished depiction of nature or of contemporary life. Realism rejects imaginative idealization in favor of close observation of outward appearances. It was a dominant current in French art between 1850 and 1880. In the early 1830s, the painters of the Barbizon school espoused realism in their faithful reproduction of the landscape near their village. G. Courbet was the first artist to proclaim and practice the realist aesthetic; his Burial at Ornans and The Stone Breakers (1849) shocked the public and critics with their frank depiction of peasants and laborers. In his satirical caricatures, H. Daumier used an energetic linear style and bold detail to criticize the immorality he saw in French society. Realism emerged in the U.S. in the work of W. Homer and T. Eakins. In the 20th cent., German artists associated with the Neue Sachlichkeit worked in a realist style to express their disillusionment after World War I. The Depression-era movement known as Social Realism adopted a similarly harsh realism to depict the injustices of U.S. society. See also naturalism.
In literature, the theory or practice of fidelity to nature or to real life and to accurate representation without idealization of everyday life. The 18th-cent. works of D. Defoe, H. Fielding, and T. Smollett are among the earliest examples of realism in English ...
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