Word: fanaticisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Shaw gave advice to photographers on photography (he was a fanatic for "scientific timing" in the darkroom) and to printers on printing. He instructed Poet Laureate Robert Bridges about phonetic spelling: "If we do not spell words as they are pronounced, our readers will pronounce words as they are spelt...
When it comes to his fellow players, Goodman tends to respect those with the most difficult jobs, starting with his own. "A timpanist is the only one who is always alone." He concedes that the horn is even more difficult than the timpani. "I have never known a French-horn...
"Lost Paraguayos" is purely picaresque; Stewart here is a rogue, seemingly sponging off the love of a very young maiden: "I like your laugh, and a nice hot bath and your oily sense of humor,--but if it rains again like it did today, I'm gonna hafta leave a...
How they wrote them! With varying literary distinction, indeed with all the ornamental vices of the time, yet often with attractive energy and at copious length, they wrote to each other monthly, weekly, sometimes daily, for nearly 20 years. What was more unusual, the Jones family saved the letters, all...
IT WOULD BE a mistake to read this album as an epitaph. After all, a two-record set is a pretty ambitious undertaking and the Stones have always been at their best when least ambitious. The last time they overstepped their natural boundaries, they produced the relatively lousy Their Satanic...