Word: troubador
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gordon Lightfoot. Top 40 Gregorian chants from the Canadian troubador. Sunday, on the Cape at South Yarmouth, in the Cape Cod Coliseum...
...tone is that of the seer scorned; yet he can hardly claim to be the prophet ignored. For 30 years he has been a cinder in the public eye: novelist, Broadway playwright, television dramatist, screenwriter, essayist, congressional candidate, actor, troubador to the Kennedy Camelot, talk-show regular, political debater and full-time nag. Millions who have never read him recognize his electronic presence: elegance bordering on narcissism, feline languor, throaty self-assurance...
...troubador of the smart set. Porter was perfectly willing to mock himself as much as anyone else. Cole contains a fine selection of Porter's lyrics, and some notes on the real Cole Porter. For a coffee table book, it is well worth having...
Mailer's main indictment of Millett is that she misunderstands and deliberately misrepresents her four main male targets: Henry Miller, D.H. Lawrence, Jean Genèt and himself. He accuses her of judging Miller by contemporary standards, and not as a "wandering troubador of the Twenties," when "one followed the line of one's sexual impulse without a backward look at what was moral, responsible or remotely desirable for society." Millett's "critical misdemeanor" with Lawrence is treating him out of sequence "to conceal the pilgrimage, hide the life, cover over that emotional odyssey which took...