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Word: ichabod (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Class Act. As a performer, Gary Stewart's special attraction is the energetic diversity he displays when given a beer and a stage. Hunched over the piano, a spindly Ichabod partial to wide-brimmed swamper hats, Stewart invites everybody to get loose to something like his own Hank Western, with a weakness for "any good-lookin' woman, any kind of booze." The delivery, in a tight, nasal tenor voice, is as seasoned as the inside of an old spittoon, but heartfelt. Says Stewart: "It's all a poor man's music that talks about troubles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The South/music: A Honky -Tonk Man | 9/27/1976 | See Source »

There are still misty memories from the Kennedy days of Walter Heller, a kind of economic Ichabod, loping happily through the corridors of the White House advocating the New Economics, a system that eventually yielded this nation the longest continued economic expansion (105 months) in our history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Misusing the White House Machine | 8/13/1973 | See Source »

...devil himself, or at least in league with him. He looked like Ichabod Crane done up as Mephistopheles, allegedly spent more time in illicit beds than in his own, was a fabulous showman and died, denying nothing, at 57. Not even Don Juan had such high-powered publicity-but then Don Juan couldn't play the fiddle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Lucifericm Legacy | 11/29/1971 | See Source »

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