On the day after the Dylan session [an impromptu recording session in Nashville with just Cash and Bob Dylan], Cash got a phone call from Don Davis, a music publisher and two-time husband of Anita Carter. Davis, who had earlier tipped him off to “Jackson,”...
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" "Chicago," "The Sound of Music," "Damn Yankees," "Annie," "The Music Man" ... the list went on and on. Each of them sparked me in a different way. The lyrics were uplifting and comic and clever. They offered an escape from the moral rigidity and judgment of the church. They...
George Washington Dixonsang "Coal Black Rose," the air of which was appropriated from an old ballad, as early as 1827. His first New York appearance was of the Lafayette Theatre, July 19, 1828. He later became notorious as a filibuster during the Yucatan disturbances, and died in New Orl...
The last of his own illusions seemed to have crumbled near the end. Dictating his autobiography late in life, he commented with a crushing sense of despair on men's final release from earthly struggles: "...they vanish from a world where they were of no consequence; where they achieved no...
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The last of his own illusions seemed to have crumbled near the end. Dictating his autobiography late in life, he commented with a crushing sense of despair on men's final release from earthly struggles: "...they vanish from a world where they were of no consequence; where they achieved no...
I experience the greatest degree of pleasure in having contact with works of art. They furnish me with happy feelings of an intensity that I cannot derive from other sources.1920. Quoted by Moszkowski, Conversations with Einstein, 184. Here, according to the context, Einstein refers only to li...
poverished population, alienated in feeling from other portions of the community, thereby threatening us with an insupportable weight of pauperism. The committee were of opinion that the force of truth ought without delay to be applied to the Book of Mormon, and the character of ...
1.extract,part,piece,section,selection,passage,portion,fragment,quotation,citation,pericopean excerpt from Tchaikovsky's 'Nutcracker' verb 1.extract,take,select,quote,cite,pick out,cullThe readings were excerpted from his autobiography. Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged...