Word: tripe
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...miss Fortuny, Inc., or Publisher Flumiani. A particularly heartless and lucrative operator in what is known to the book trade as "vanity publishing," Publisher Flumiani was convicted of mulcting, since 1935, several thousand gullible authors of around $500.000 by making them pay for the publication of their books-mostly tripe...
...great, or even good, music. But hearing a thing like it now and then allows the public to re-evaluate its critical standards, and to re-assert or reject its opinion of specific works. For the good music to be rediscovered and best appreciated, a lot of tripe has to be dragged up with it. Besides, many people can get a pseudo-scholarly pleasure out of recognizing certain features even in a piece of very bad music. Everyone has heard at one time or another that in his early works Mahler devoted himself to studying the manifestations of nature...
...right, all the experts say so, Hitler says so, Marx says so, Christ says so, The Times says so,' he would reply in effect, 'Well, I wonder. Let's see.'... You would come away realizing that an opinion may be influentially backed and yet be tripe...
...Surrey, England: "I am trying to do a piece for the lads in this war. You know, though, they say it's only once in a lifetime that you do a masterpiece. But that wasn't a masterpiece, of course. The fact is, it was the utterest tripe, old boy, the utterest tripe...
...person by a great many bands. Among the crop of new outfits, trombonists Jack Teagarden and Jack Jenny and pianist Teddy Wilson have units worth watching . . . The public's taste in jazz has kept on improving; consequently, Mr. Shaw is finding things just a bit more difficult. His tripe isn't quite as easy to pan-handle this year . . . Benny Goodman has broken the biggest unwritten law in jazz by having a colored man as a regular member of his band. Fletcher Henderson was the choice. The idea is fine--the selection not awe-inspiring. Fletcher is a great arranger...