Word: bastardizations
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MINISTER. No I haven't (hunting desperately), it's all right...Arabia...Argentina...Arlington...hah-- Armageddon--a pagan village of roughly five thousand inhabitants, by a bastard son of Alexander the Great, parenthesis, 'folk...
...Colonel. Hamilton was the bastard son of a French-English mother and a Scotch father who lived together apparently with full approval of the community on the West Indian island of St. Kitts. At the age of 14, Hamilton confided to a friend: "My Ambition is prevalent that I contemn the grov'ling and the condition of a Clerk or the like, to which my Fortune &c. condemns me and would willingly risk my life tho' not my Character to exalt my Station. I shall Conclude saying I wish there...
Gunther Schuller and John Lewis have somewhat naively tried to incorporate both jazz and overtly classical music either horizontally or vertically in the same work. The cool reception of the jazz world at large is certainly indicative, but instead of passing off these bastard creations dogmatically you might do well to listen to Conversation on Atlantic 1345. There you will find a few minutes of excellent string quartet writing followed by a few minutes of excellent jazz quartet blowing. But as a general direction for future jazz to take, I think that the efforts of these two men will...
Yesenin-Volpin's pessimism and rebelliousness come naturally. His father, the great Russian village poet, Sergei Yesenin, was an ardent early Bolshevik, whose increasing disillusion with Communism was accompanied by a marriage to Dancer Isadora Duncan and a slide into alcoholic and narcotic torpor. His bastard son, Aleksandr Sergeyevich, was the result of a liaison with a Russian writer-translator, Nadezhda Volpin. Shortly after his son's birth, Yesenin slashed his wrists in a Leningrad hotel, wrote his last poem in his blood, then hanged himself...
...this messy little political parable the problem of ambition is curiously misconceived. The hero is described by one colleague as a "grasping and self-important bastard," but he seems no more ambitious than the next man in politics -or indeed in any other career requiring get up and ego. In the script, a man's legitimate ambitions are primly restricted: according to his colleagues, he must do whatever the majority decides is right, and according to the woman he loves, he must subordinate his career to "a life built around his children." In plain English, the moviemakers are saying...