Word: rubbishing
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...harpsichord lover of many years' standing, I have long advocated relegating the piano to the rubbish heap. You can therefore imagine with what relish I read your description of the students who can reduce a piano to kindling in five minutes...
...Symphony-another symphony, a concerto for harpsichord, strings and percussion, and a new work called Concert for Eight, which is scored for an accordion and seven instruments "masked" to produce odd sounds. He is totally unconcerned about the cool public reception his works usually find. When a listener cried "Rubbish!" at the close of a Gerhard concert in England two years ago, Gerhard blithely said: "One man's meat is another man's poison, but I hope the man who thinks my music is rubbish may soon become civilized...
Cleopatra was rubbish-and he made something...
Cries of "Rubbish." In the week be fore the conference. 20 million copies of Macmillan's pamphlet, stating why Britain must join Europe, were circulated to every corner of the United Kingdom. At Llandudno young party workers distributed among the delegates hundreds of five-inch lapel badges that bore only one word: "Yes."' Belatedly. anti-Marketeers copied the ploy, but their "No" buttons were overwhelmingly outnumbered. To provide the facts and figures about the Market, Britain's chief negotiator, Lord Privy Seal Edward Heath, interrupted meetings with the Six in Brussels and flew to Wales. Exhibiting...
...Turton and Sir Derek Walker-Smith, forcefully invoked the catch phrase of "Queen, country and Commonwealth.'' But the old arguments failed to rouse a cold audience. When an anti-Marketeer said that Britain's young people were against going into the Market. cries of ''Rubbish'' and "Nonsense" filled the hall...