Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fact that there was only one ringer in the group (as it happened, the Summer School just didn't attract a tuba player this year). And while the quality of performance was often less than ideal (although it was never distressingly so)--better this state of affairs than a dull program with a lot of last-minute professional support...
...years of relative obscurity ("Decent poverty is really an ideal environment for serious people," he said), Goodman became a kind of youthcult hero in 1960 with the publication of Growing Up Absurd, in which he argued that problem children were the fault of a society that offered them only dull jobs and squalid ideals. Two years later in The Community of Scholars, he attacked the colleges as bureaucratic machines that had proved unable to provide youth with genuine learning. "The ultimate rationale of administration," he wrote, "is that a school is a teaching machine, to train the young by predigested...
...Never a Dull Moment, like its predecessors, showcases this latter aspect of Stewart's personality. It is here that he reveals the troubadour in him. The songs themselves revolve around the central theme. "True Blues" comes out of the familial problems dealt with in "Maggie May." It is the story of the wayward son returning home. Its music is more coherent, probably because it's actually the Faces! Musically, the song features the chording that Ronnie Wood's strongest talent, along with the fuzzy, percussive sound that is his most distinguishing feature. Wood is a very good guitarist, but, since...
Thematically, Never a Dull Moment continues nearly all the ideas first set forth in "Gasoline Alley." The major songs are by and large continuances or enlargements of a theme or fragment whose origins come in part from "Gasoline Alley," and are more fully treated on Every Picture Tells a Story...
...also doubles the amount of music we can hear, and, in his case, that's good. His latest album is a comfortable success all the way through, even if lacking the standouts that graced his previous efforts. As far as I'm concerned, the best advertisement for Never a Dull Moment is its title...