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«We not only romanticize the future; we have also made it into a growth industry, a parlor game and a disaster movie all at the same time.»
Author: Eugene Kennedy
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growth industry, movie industry, parlor, parlors, parlor game, romanticize
«When the commission finds that a pig has entered the parlor, the exercise of its regulatory power does not depend on proof that the pig is obscene.»
Author: John Paul Stevens
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Justice
| Keywords:
commission, obscene, parlors, pig, regulatory, the commission
«I like all the chairs to talk to one another and to the sofas and not those parlor-car arrangements that create two Siberias.»
Author: Mario Buatta
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arrangements, car, chairs, parlor, parlors, parlor car, sofa, sofas, talk to, The Arrangement, The Chairs
«Yes, I heard my people singing!--in the glow of parlor coal-stove and on summer porches sweet with lilac air, from choir loft and Sunday morning pews--and my soul was filled with their harmonies. Then, too, I heard these songs in the very sermons of my father, for in the Negro's speech there is much of the phrasing and rhythms of folk-song. The great, soaring gospels we love are merely sermons that are sung; and as we thrill to such gifted gospel singers as Mahalia Jackson, we hear the rhythmic eloquence of our preachers, so many of whom, like my father, are masters of poetic speech.»
Author: Paul Robeson
(Activist, Actor, Singer)
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choir, choirs, choir loft, coal, eloquence, folk, folk song, gifted, glow, gospel, Gospels, harmonies, Jackson, lilac, lilacs, loft, Negro, parlor, parlors, phrasing, poetic, porches, preachers, rhythmic, rhythms, sermons, singers, soaring, summer sweet, Sung, The Choir, The Glow, thrill
«A piano store looks like a funeral parlor for music.»
Author: Ramon Gomez de la Serna
(Writer)
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for music, funeral, funeral parlor, parlor, parlors, piano
«As long as art is the beauty parlor of civilization, neither art nor civilization is secure»
Author: John Dewey
(Educator, Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Art,
Civilization
| Keywords:
beauty parlor, parlor, parlors
«PIANO, n. A parlor utensil for subduing the impenitent visitor. It is operated by pressing the keys of the machine and the spirits of the audience.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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impenitent, keys, operated, parlor, parlors, piano, pressing, subduing, The Machine, utensil, utensils, visitor
«Prince, a precept I'd leave for you, Coined in Eden, existing yet: Skirt the parlor, and shun the zoo, Women and elephants never forget»
«Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.»
«The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.»
Author: Walt Whitman
(Poet)
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ambassadors, authors, churches, colleges, common people, executives, inventors, Legislatures, newspapers, parlors, The Ambassadors, The Genius, the inventor
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