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Buster Keaton
“[laughs] I still rather — I’ll watch 15–20 minutes of The Three Stooges every time I can, but I prefer Buster Keaton, and Laurel and Hardy.”
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Dana Gioia
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Inside Enderby
“I’ve read Inside Enderby, the Enderby novels, three times and they never failed to amuse me.”
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” I have that, but I think the Beach Boys’ greatest songs from almost a decade are among the high points of American popular music. They are at this moment especially valuable because they are in some ways the purest expressions of a personal and collective optimism that America had about, in a sense, the goodness of life, and we’ve lost that to our detriment.
“” I have that, but I think the Beach Boys’ greatest songs from almost a decade are among the high points of American popular music. They are at this moment especially valuable because they are in some ways the purest expressions of a personal and collective optimism that America had about, in a sense, the goodness of life, and we’ve lost that to our detriment.”
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His greatest libretto in terms of poetry is his first one called Paul Bunyan, which made an absolutely terrible opera because it was so well written, you couldn’t do anything with it.
“His greatest libretto in terms of poetry is his first one called Paul Bunyan, which made an absolutely terrible opera because it was so well written, you couldn’t do anything with it.”
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The trouble with that in terms of academic culture is that there’s one or two trendy ways that they think are important because they generate work that validates you for promotion and for tenure versus having real deeper cultural values.
“The trouble with that in terms of academic culture is that there’s one or two trendy ways that they think are important because they generate work that validates you for promotion and for tenure versus having real deeper cultural values.”
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I think that writing great lyrics is what makes a lot of musical theater from opera to cabaret either excellent or lousy.
“I think that writing great lyrics is what makes a lot of musical theater from opera to cabaret either excellent or lousy.”
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I think that perhaps Earthly Powers was his great novel because he takes the form of a Somerset Maugham novel, and he overlays a mafia novel, a religious novel, a Bildungsroman all in that.
“I think that perhaps Earthly Powers was his great novel because he takes the form of a Somerset Maugham novel, and he overlays a mafia novel, a religious novel, a Bildungsroman all in that.”
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The arts world was very angry about that, but that is the best thing that I did in my chairmanship, was to make this institution, which reflected America.
“The arts world was very angry about that, but that is the best thing that I did in my chairmanship, was to make this institution, which reflected America.”
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Actually, that’s the weird thing is, I worked all the way up to the top, and just when I would have made some good money, I just said, “I’ve only got one life to lead.” It was complicated reasons because I think you know, I lost a son.
“Actually, that’s the weird thing is, I worked all the way up to the top, and just when I would have made some good money, I just said, “I’ve only got one life to lead.” It was complicated reasons because I think you know, I lost a son.”
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