Word: depths
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Like Dylan, Thompson has the rarely found depth that allows him to appeal to your sympathy one minute and kick you in the balls the next. No song on this new disk exemplifies this better than the first one, "When The Spell Is Broken." The minor chords issuing from Thompson's twangy, vibrettoed guitar rumble and lament like a Scottish funural dirge, and his solo swoops gracefully and reverently around them. The words, though, are pure vitriol, worthy of an especially pissed-off Dylan or a younger Graham Parker. The extremity of its despair makes this song frightening, with appropriately...
...unpaid and unacknowledged editor of the celebrated Westminster Review, she enters into fierce arguments about political and religious subjects. Her article "Silly Novels by Lady Novelists" excoriates authors who mistake "vagueness for depth, bombast for eloquence, and affectation for originality." Even after it becomes known in 1859 that George Eliot is actually a woman, she is never accused of similar foolishness. For the rest of her life she is regarded as the formidable equal of such eminent Victorians as Charles Dickens and Herbert Spencer...
Part of the secret of his success is that his eclecticism creates surface expectations of major art (complexity, depth, psychic intensity and so on) without discharging them in explicit meanings. He wittily exploits the affinity between artist and charlatan. A symbolist with roller skates, he moves very quickly across a vast terrain of appropriated motifs, and the results are usually banal. Even in today's morass of worthless "personal" imagery, it would be hard to find a sillier painting than one in the Castelli show of a green whirlpool a la Poe with a man and his separated genitals disappearing...
...Harvard Men's and women's sailing teams demonstrated their depth over the weekend al over New England, competing in 15 divisions of six different regattas...
LAST WEEK'S resurgence of anti-apartheid activity once again brought to the foreground the depth of the emotional feeling the divestiture issue raises on campus. More that 5000 students thronged the Yard to hear the Rev. Jesse I. Jackson denounce Harvard's ties to South Africa, and then some 75 staged an all-night vigil outside Massachusetts Hall. If there were any doubts as to whether the campus divestiture movement would be able to summon the strength for another spring drive, they were decisively dispelled...