Word: copperfield
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Organ Tones. He was born July 9, 1916, light-years away from the graceful world that traditionally breeds Tory leaders. His father was a master builder in the sleepy seaside resort of Broadstairs, Kent, where Charles Dickens worked on David Copperfield. "Rather a nobby place," was Dickens' description of Broadstairs, but old friends remember young Heath as rather nobody. While other boys played on the beach, he preferred to read indoors or practice on the battered upright in the Heaths' front room. He grew up in a semidetached, six-room house beside the railway tracks that shudders every...
...make arbitrary demands on the materials fed through them. And because the public to be served is large and failure costly, it is important that the product suit-hence the endless cutting and adapting, reworking and diluting, which end in travesty. The films of Hamlet, Wuthering Heights or David Copperfield are obvious examples of one kind of demolition...To see the works of the Impressionists twisted into backgrounds for advertising perfume; to hear the melodies of Bach, Mozart, Berlioz and Chopin re-handled by Tin Pan Alley; to listen to absent-minded hacks giving the lowdown on high...