Word: fawning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ironically, just as the minority abandons it, the masses begin to fawn upon its fifty-year-old innovation for the wrong reasons. Beethoven, Berlioz, Wagner, and Schoenberg were regarded, with varying vehemence, as musical antichrists, Yet now that they are heard, with deadening frequency, they are widely caricatured as rebels or prophets, venerable and unapproachable. They are accorded all honors except the simple duty of critical listening. As Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan laments upon realizing that her belated 1910 canonization was due to a stupid society's mute guilt rather than its compassion: "Woe to him whom...
Budgie Bill is not one of your ordinary English tramps. Wearing a fawn-colored overcoat with wing collars and an ancient trilby that looks like "a burst concertina," he haunts villages in the daytime and cities at night. More startling, he always walks backward and, if he pauses in his perambulations, he lies down instead of sitting...
...DEVIL DRIVES: A LIFE OF SIR RICHARD BURTON, by Fawn Brodie. A skillful biography of the fine old Victorian eccentric who roamed uncharted areas of North Africa and Asia and spent his spare time cataloguing the varieties of sexual activity he encountered along...
...DEVIL DRIVES: A LIFE OF SIR RICHARD BURTON, by Fawn Brodie. The adventures of a fine old Victorian eccentric who roamed uncharted areas of North Africa and Asia and spent his spare time cataloguing the varieties of sexual activity he encountered along...
...DEVIL DRIVES: A LIFE OF SIR RICHARD BURTON, by Fawn Brodie. A skillful biography of the fine old Victorian eccentric who roamed uncharted areas of North Africa and Asia and spent his spare time cataloguing the varieties of sexual activity he encountered along...