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… that VQR would succeed where others had failed. On June 26, 1925, he wrote editor James Southall Wilson: I suppose … we have a criticism, and we can’t have that until we become professional – instead of being just geniuses, or perhaps ladies and gentlemen. Davis responded, “Your essay could well …
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… the rest of your life.” The story traced the saga of Pat’s Diet Shake, the latest commercial spin-off from Robertson’s soul-winning empire. In … building located in Portsmouth, according to CBN’s own website, “was taxed beyond its limits,” and Robertson …
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… the radio, on this station, you have to have a third-class FCC license.” Well, Art had a first-class license. He was studying radio engineering at Stanford and said so. “Come back here!” The manager again, that growl. Art leans … old songs from back in elementary school, junior high. Oldies, they called them. One day Art said they were “oldies …
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… saw him publish nearly a book a year. He alternated between comic novels devoted to the lives of comfy-living Englishmen … to Africa, South America, Eastern Europe, and the West Indies, for which he was paid a healthy living wage (Waugh … of Dust , for example, or Adam Fenwick-Symes in Vile Bodies embody both the comic manners and the predilection for …
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… one of his favorite expressions); second, his concept of “locomotive onomatopoeia” as an American musical grammar, in … something worthy of getting himself, the band, and the audience over to the other side. He looked up to see if I … is) a hero of the blues.It is up to scholars, intellectuals, and Americans of every ethnicity to catch up to his …
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… “This hard core of hostility,” a director once said, comparing him to Marlon Brando. That mesmerizing anger. … way, will not be singing “The Banana Boat Song,” and has also decided that he won’t accept commercials. “Oh my god,” … Bogart. There was a Sudanese fighting beside Allied soldiers in the Libyan desert, a black man strangling a Nazi …