Word: wente
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...front of the hotel two autograph hounds attacked Arnold. The pair went to have tea, chatted about the Longinian ideal, the habit of greatness, idols--Arnold's idol in acting was Burt Reynolds. Arnold bantered with the waiters, it was always Arnold, not Arnold Schwarzenegger or Mr. Schwarzenegger or Mr. Arnold. That meant something to Hercules, it meant that Arnold was more than a weightlifter or an actor or a businessman or an author--Arnold was Arnold. Suddenly Hercules desperately wanted a pair of blue armadillo boots...
...like a big kid, kind of lurching, walked right into cars on the way down the street. There really was something childlike about Arnold, Hercules decided, not in a bad way, but something refreshing in his simple outlook on life, his naive egoism, his sense of endless possibility. Hercules went back to the gym to lift weights...
Christmas. The day He was born. Santa Claus. Peace on Earth, goodwill toward people, spend money. Want to drown out those obnoxiously cheery-faced little carollers outside in the street? Try playing some records. We went sleighing over hills and dales, to grandma's and the North Pole, to find the best Christmas albums for you. And we found them in a stocking over a big fireplace somewhere in Greenland. But we lost them. So we reviewed these albums instead...
Definitely the "Sergeant Pepper" of Christmas albums, this one will be remembered years from now as the time Snoopy first turned on and went psychedelic. Maybe it was there all along and we never noticed, never wanted to believe it. Along with that little roundheaded kid and the Great Pumpkin and the Red Baron and Woodstock, this puppy has been on a strange trip for quite a while. But this time he lets it all hang...
Introduced by Tom "Satch" Sanders, an Auerbach find who went on to coach the Crimson, Auerbach stuck around after his speech to answer questions...