I know that luck has a way of happening to people who shoot high, who never sell themselves short.
The Armstrong record that I personally like the most, is a recording of a song by Harold Arlen called, "I Got a Right to Sing the Blues" . Most of Ar… - Terry Teachout
The Armstrong record that I personally like the most, is a recording of a song by Harold Arlen called, "I Got a Right to Sing the Blues" . Most of Ar…
- Terry Teachout
Virgil Thomson, the great classical music critic, who was also a composer, but said that criticism was the only antidote he knew to pay publicity. Cr… - Terry Teachout
Virgil Thomson, the great classical music critic, who was also a composer, but said that criticism was the only antidote he knew to pay publicity. Cr…
I wouldn't care to speculate about what it is in Westlake's psyche that makes him so good at writing about Parker, much less what it is that makes me… - Terry Teachout
I wouldn't care to speculate about what it is in Westlake's psyche that makes him so good at writing about Parker, much less what it is that makes me…
(R)eality TV (is) a medium dedicated to the proposition that with the help of judicious editing, carefully chosen half-wits can hold the attention of… - Terry Teachout
(R)eality TV (is) a medium dedicated to the proposition that with the help of judicious editing, carefully chosen half-wits can hold the attention of…
Whether early or late, the Parker novels are all superlative literary entertainments. - Terry Teachout
Whether early or late, the Parker novels are all superlative literary entertainments.
We are born into a vast room whose walls consist of a thousand doors of possibility. Each door is flung open to the world outside, and the room is fi… - Terry Teachout
We are born into a vast room whose walls consist of a thousand doors of possibility. Each door is flung open to the world outside, and the room is fi…
I was interested in Armstrong to begin with because he is the most important figure in Jazz in the 20th Century. There's simply no question about it.… - Terry Teachout
I was interested in Armstrong to begin with because he is the most important figure in Jazz in the 20th Century. There's simply no question about it.…
EXTREMELY FUNNY! A SUPER-VIRTUOSO! I expected to enjoy 'The Two and Only,' but I didn't expect to be touched, much less to find my eyes growing moist. - Terry Teachout
EXTREMELY FUNNY! A SUPER-VIRTUOSO! I expected to enjoy 'The Two and Only,' but I didn't expect to be touched, much less to find my eyes growing moist.
This impeccably researched study of the classic black insult game may be the funniest work of serious scholarship ever published. - Terry Teachout
This impeccably researched study of the classic black insult game may be the funniest work of serious scholarship ever published.
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