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# Matthew d'Ancona

Matthew Robert Ralph d'Ancona (born 27 January 1968) is an English journalist and editor-at-large of The New European. A former deputy editor of The Sunday Telegraph, he was appointed editor of The Spectator in February 2006, a post he retained until August 2009.

## Quotes

* [As of 2023] Universities and employers often subordinate this previously cherished liberty [free speech] to the claims of "offence" (necessarily subjective) and to the risk of "harms" (usually ill-defined). One egregious outcome of this cultural shift is that an alarming number of people – especially gender-critical feminists – have lost their livelihoods. In October 2021, for instance, the philosophy professor Kathleen Stock was driven to resign from the University of Sussex by a campaign of intimidation that included the letting off of flares by masked trans activists outside her family's home and the warning: "Fire Kathleen Stock. Otherwise you'll see us around." The standard riposte is that [Maya] Forstater, Stock and others like them (though by no means all) have gone on to other forms of gainful employment and prominence in public life. How, then, could they possibly have been "censored"? This is an absurd and infantile argument. The fact that these two women have been sufficiently resourceful and resilient to find new ways of making their ideas known and their voices heard is neither here nor there. Stock should never have been menaced to the point that it was intolerable for her to remain a faculty member; Forstater should not have lost her job.
** "Free speech does not belong to the right… it’s a precious progressive value", The New European (5 July 2023)
* [On Russell Brand's performances] There was a time when he hid behind the theatricality of high camp; which, as Susan Sontag teaches us, "is a solvent of morality. It neutralises moral indignation, sponsors playfulness". Posturing as a Goth Noel Coward, he was, onstage, remarkably open about his sexual conduct. But it was hard to take seriously a man who looked like the lovechild of Lenny Kravitz and Charles Hawtrey; an explosion in a wig factory. That was his cunning. He sniffed out zones of impunity and crouched within them.
** "Russell Brand is not a martyr and the claims against him are not a conspiracy", The New European (19 September 2023)
** In multiple media reports, Brand was alleged to have sexually assaulted and abused multiple women (including a claim of rape), accusations he denied.
* The most important political divide in the world is no longer between left and right. It is not even between liberal and authoritarian. It is between those who grasp the sheer scale and potentially revolutionary consequences – in the US and around the world – of what Donald Trump is trying to do in his second term; and those who don't.
** "Donald Trump, American Caesar", The New European (12 February 2025)
# Priestly Blessing

The Priestly Blessing or priestly benediction (Hebrew: ברכת כהנים, birkat kohanim), also known in Judaism as raising of the hands, rising to the platform or duchening, is a prayer recited in Jewish and Christian services. The text of the blessing is found in Numbers 6:22–27.

## Quotes

* וַיְדַבֵּ֥ר יְהֹוָ֖ה אֶל־מֹשֶׁ֥ה לֵּאמֹֽר׃ דַּבֵּ֤ר אֶֽל־אַהֲרֹן֙ וְאֶל־בָּנָ֣יו לֵאמֹ֔ר כֹּ֥ה תְבָרְכ֖וּ אֶת־בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל אָמ֖וֹר לָהֶֽם׃ יְבָרֶכְךָ֥ יְהֹוָ֖ה וְיִשְׁמְרֶֽךָ׃ יָאֵ֨ר יְהֹוָ֧ה ׀ פָּנָ֛יו אֵלֶ֖יךָ וִֽיחֻנֶּֽךָּ׃ יִשָּׂ֨א יְהֹוָ֤ה ׀ פָּנָיו֙ אֵלֶ֔יךָ וְיָשֵׂ֥ם לְךָ֖ שָׁלֽוֹם׃ וְשָׂמ֥וּ אֶת־שְׁמִ֖י עַל־בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל וַאֲנִ֖י אֲבָרְכֵֽם׃
** Numbers 6:22–27 (MT)
** Translations:
*** יהוה spoke to Moses: Speak to Aaron and his sons: Thus shall you bless the people of Israel. Say to them: יהוה bless you and protect you! יהוה deal kindly and graciously with you! יהוה bestow [divine] favor upon you and grant you peace! Thus they shall link My name with the people of Israel, and I will bless them.
**** JPS translation
*** And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto Aaron and unto his sons, saying, On this wise ye shall bless the children of Israel, saying unto them, The Lord bless thee, and keep thee: The Lord make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee: The Lord lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace. And they shall put my name upon the children of Israel, and I will bless them.
**** KJV translation

## Quotes about the Priestly Blessing

* Five or six guys get up on the bimah on the stage, and they are facing the congregation. They get their talit over their heads, and they start this chanting, I think it's called duchening. And my father said to me, "Don't look!" So everybody's got their eyes covered with their hands, or they have got their talit down over their faces, or turned away, turned their back to these guys. ... And then the leader would shout out: "Yeborechecho!" ["The Lord bless thee!"] And the rest of them would respond: "Yeborechecho adonai v'yishmerecho!" ["The Lord bless thee and keep thee!"] It was chilling. Whoa, something major is happening here! So I peeked, and I saw them with their hands stuck out from beneath their talit like this, towards the congregation. ... I had no idea what was going on, but the sound of it and the look of it was magical.
** Leonard Nimoy, in "Leonard Nimoy's Oral History" (1:00:20–1:01:54). Yiddish Book Center (2013).
# Joseph Chusak Sirisut

Joseph Chusak Sirisut (February 24, 1956–) is a Thai prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who serves as the bishop of the Diocese of Nakhon Ratchasima.

## Quotes

* Political leaders will have to listen to us, because religious leaders represent the wishes, hopes, desires, values of the entire population of Thailand. Dialogue is the only way possible. We are convinced that this is the time: religions can commit themselves. To Buddhists, who are sometimes skeptical about this type of action, we say: this does not mean to go in politics, but help a process of dialogue and act on the conscience of our political leaders.
** After the coup, Bishops and religious leaders become mediators between the warring parties (23 May 2014)
# Johann Gropper

Johann Gropper (24 February 1503 – 13 March 1559) was a German prelate of the Catholic Church.

## Quotes about Johann Gropper

* While Gropper no doubt accomplished much good by his opposition to the innovations of the reformers, it is but too evident that his zeal for union sometimes led him to sacrifice Catholic principles.
** Henry Joseph Schroeder, John Gropper (1913) Catholic Encyclopedia
# Willigis

Willigis (c. 940 – 23 February 1011 AD) was a prelate of the Catholic Church who served as the archbishop of the Archdiocese of Mainz and as the archchancellor of the Holy Roman Empire.

## Quotes about Willigis

* Well educated himself, he demanded solid learning in his clergy. He was known as a good and fluent speaker.
** Francis Mershman, St. Willigis (1913) Catholic Encyclopedia
# Industrial metal

Industrial metal is the fusion of heavy metal and industrial music, typically employing repeating metal guitar riffs, sampling, synthesizer or sequencer lines, and distorted vocals. Industrial metal developed in the late 1980s, as industrial and metal began to fuse into a common genre. Industrial metal did well in the early 1990s, particularly in North America, with the success of groups such as Nine Inch Nails, but its popularity began to fade in the latter half of the 1990s.

## Quotes about industrial metal

* Industrial metal is a musical genre that draws from industrial music and heavy metal. It is usually centered around repeating metal guitar riffs, sampling, synthesizer or sequencer lines, and distorted vocals. The style became increasingly commercially successful in the 1990s. Subsequently, it is most well-known in various European permutations.
** Anton N-D Chirtsov of Ultimate-Guitar (May 16, 2017)
# Viking metal

Viking metal is a subgenre of heavy metal music characterized by a lyrical and thematic focus on Norse mythology, Norse paganism, and the Viking Age. Viking metal is quite diverse as a musical style, to the point where some consider it more a cross-genre term than a genre, but it is typically heard as black metal with influences from Nordic folk music. Common traits include a slow-paced and heavy riffing style, anthemic choruses, use of both sung and harsh vocals, a reliance on folk instrumentation, and often the use of keyboards for atmospheric effect.
Viking metal emerged from black metal during the late 1980s and early 1990s, sharing with black metal an opposition to Christianity, but rejecting Satanism and occult themes in favor of the Vikings and paganism. It is similar, in lyrics, sound, and thematic imagery, to pagan metal, but pagan metal has a broader mythological focus and uses folk instrumentation more extensively. Most Viking metal bands originate from the Nordic countries, and nearly all bands claim that their members descend, directly or indirectly, from Vikings.

## Quotes about Viking metal

* To someone unfamiliar with the history of heavy metal, the premise of a metal sub-genre dedicated exclusively to Norse themes would sound positively ludicrous. And yet! In the late ‘80s, Viking metal started gaining traction, thanks, in large part, to the works of Sweden’s Bathory, and, specifically, their seminal trilogy of albums: 1988’s Blood Fire Death, ‘90s Hammerheart, and ‘91’s Twilight of the Gods. Then, as the heavy metal Valkyries descended across all of Scandinavia in the early ‘90s – launching major “scenes” around Norway’s black metal, Sweden’s death metal, and Finland’s folk metal – it was only a matter of time before these new bands began finding inspiration in their heritage. Marrying Norse history and legends, its bloodthirsty gods, and pagan rituals with heavy metal’s violent sounds, gothic tones, and natural aggression was almost too easy!
# Hirax

Hirax (often stylized as HIRAX) is an American thrash metal band from Cypress, California. Starting in 1984 under the leadership of vocalist Katon W. De Pena (the band's only original member left in the current line-up), the band played in Los Angeles and San Francisco with several of their thrash metal peers such as Metallica, Exodus, and Slayer. The band was an early example of thrash metal, speed metal and crossover thrash, yet inspired by cross-genre influences including blues vocalist Sam Cooke.

## Quotes about Hirax

* Hirax became a fixture in the Los Angeles metal community before they achieved broader recognition, beginning with 1985’s aptly named ‘Raging Violence,’ released by Metal Blade, of course. The band was led by vocalist Katon W. de Pena, whose idiosyncratic vocal style alternated between vicious snarling and semi-operatic screams, thus mirroring his bandmates’ bi-polar blend of blazing thrash and classic metal.
# British Invasion

The British Invasion was a cultural phenomenon of the mid-1960s, when rock and pop music acts from the United Kingdom and other aspects of British culture became popular in the United States with significant influence on the rising "counterculture" on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. British pop and rock groups such as the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Bee Gees, Gerry and the Pacemakers, the Who, the Kinks, the Zombies, Small Faces, the Dave Clark Five, the Spencer Davis Group, the Yardbirds, Them, Manfred Mann, the Searchers, Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas, Freddie and the Dreamers, the Hollies, Herman's Hermits, Chad and Jeremy, Peter and Gordon, the Animals, the Moody Blues, the Mindbenders, the Troggs, Cream, Traffic, the Pretty Things, Pink Floyd, and Procol Harum, as well as solo singers such as Dusty Springfield, Cilla Black, Petula Clark, Tom Jones, Donovan, and Marianne Faithfull were at the forefront of the "invasion."

## Quotes about the British Invasion

* For two years after “I Want to Hold Your Hand” topped the U.S. charts in February 1964, the only sound that mattered had a British accent. The Dave Clark Five, Herman’s Hermits, Petula Clark: it was an obsession that went beyond the Beatles—and initially ignored the Rolling Stones.
** David Kamp of Vanity Fair (February 10, 2014)
* Today, the term “the British Invasion” is usually employed to describe (and market) the triumphal epoch of the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and the Who, with honorable mentions to the Kinks and the Animals. In hindsight, and on merit, this sounds about right—these are the best and most revered of the English bands who came of age in the 1960s—but the reality of the British Invasion, which was at its most intense in the two years immediately following the Beatles’ landfall, was somewhat different. Far from being solely a beat-group explosion, the Invasion was a rather eclectic phenomenon that took in everything from Petula Clark’s lushly symphonic pop to Chad and Jeremy’s dulcet folk-schlock to the Yardbirds’ blues-rock rave-ups.
** David Kamp of Vanity Fair (February 10, 2014)
# Sonny Curtis

Sonny Curtis (born May 9, 1937) is an American singer and songwriter. Known for his collaborations with Buddy Holly, he was a member of the Crickets and continued with the band after Holly's death. Curtis's best known compositions include "Walk Right Back", a major hit in 1961 for the Everly Brothers; "I Fought the Law", notably covered by the Bobby Fuller Four and the Clash; and "Love is All Around", the theme song for The Mary Tyler Moore Show.

## Quotes

* A-breakin' rocks in the hot sun I fought the law and the law won I fought the law and the law won I miss my baby and the good fun I fought the law and the law won I fought the law and the law won.
** "I Fought the Law", verse 1; In Style with the Crickets (December 5, 1960)
* Love is all around, no need to waste it You can have the town, why don't you take it? You might just make it after all.
** "Love is All Around", chorus (July, 1970)

## External links

* Song Hits Magazine (Charlton Publications, Inc., 1966), p. 7
# Tony Curtis

Tony Curtis (born Bernard Schwartz; June 3, 1925 – September 29, 2010) was an American actor with a career that spanned six decades, achieving the height of his popularity in the 1950s and early 1960s. He acted in more than 100 films, in roles covering a wide range of genres. In his later years, Curtis made numerous television appearances.

## Quotes

* It's like kissing Hitler.
** On kissing Marilyn Monroe during the filming of Some Like It Hot (1959), as quoted in Maurice Zolotow, Marilyn Monroe (1960), p. 323
* Janet Leigh was years ago! Nowadays I wouldn't be caught dead married to a woman old enough to be my wife!
** Attributed in Boze Hadleigh (ed.) Hollywood Babble On (1994), p. 110

## External links

* Encyclopedic article on Tony Curtis on Wikipedia
* Tony Curtis on IMDb
# George M. Cohan

George Michael Cohan (July 3, 1878 – November 5, 1942) was an American entertainer, playwright, composer, lyricist, actor, singer, dancer and theatrical producer.

## Quotes

* I'm a Yankee Doodle dandy, A Yankee Doodle do or die; A real live nephew of my Uncle Sam's Born on the Fourth of July.
** "The Yankee Doodle Boy", chorus
** Little Johnny Jones (1904 musical)
* I'm no cranky hanky panky, I'm a dead square honest Yankee And I'm mighty proud of that old flag that flies for Uncle Sam Though I don't believe in raving, ev'ry time I see it waving There's a chill runs up my back that makes me glad I'm what I am.
** "You're a Grand Old Flag", verse 2
** George Washington, Jr. (1906 musical)

## External links

* Encyclopedic article on George M. Cohan on Wikipedia
# Caleb Cushing

Caleb Cushing (January 17, 1800 – January 2, 1879) was an American Democratic politician and diplomat who served as a Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts and the 23rd United States Attorney General under President Franklin Pierce. From 1874 until 1877, he was the U.S. Minister to Spain.

## Quotes

* Cruel war—war at home, and in the perspective distance a man on horseback with a drawn sword in his hand, some Atlantic Cæsar, or Cromwell, or Napoleon.
** Letter from Bangor, Maine (January, 1860); reported in The Historical Magazine, vol. 5, no. 10 (October, 1861), p. 313

## See also

* American Civil War (Copperhead)
* Georges Ernest Boulanger

## External links

* Claude Moore Fuess, The Life of Caleb Cushing, vol. 2 (Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1923), p. 243
* George Stimpson, A Book About a Thousand Things (Harper & Row, 1946), p. 4
* American Notes and Queries, vol. 6, no. 26 (April 25, 1891), pp. 306–7
# Paul Horan

Paul Horan O. Carm., (born 17 October 1962), is an Irish Roman Catholic prelate who is the Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Mutare, Zimbabwe since 2016. He was appointed bishop by Pope Francis on 28 May 2016. He was consecrated and installed there on 28 August 2016.

## Quotes

* So the whole area of corruption has to be addressed. We have many resources, not only minerals, but also our good land, and our educated people, but it hasn’t been coming together.
** Kudakwashe Matambo (22 March 2023). Bishop Horan on Catholic Focus: ‘the Synod is about changing attitudes.’. Jesuits Southern Africa.
# Tony Iommi

Anthony Frank Iommi Jr. (born 19 February 1948) is an English musician. He co-founded the pioneering heavy metal band Black Sabbath, and was the band's guitarist, leader, primary composer, and sole continuous member for over five decades. He is considered one of the pioneers of heavy metal music and is responsible for inspiring numerous subgenres of metal, most notably doom metal.

## Quotes about Iommi

* Black Sabbath’s Tony Iommi is without question the greatest metal guitarist of all time. There would simply be no metal without Iommi’s monumental riffs, beastly tone, and more importantly his revolutionary approach to the guitar. [...] Iommi’s sonic brilliance speaks for itself, and the fact the vast majority of the metal scene has remained unwavering in their admiration for him not only cements him as the godfather of metal, but it further establishes him as the greatest heavy metal guitarist of all time.
** Quentin Thane Singer of Forbes
# Kevin Shields

Kevin Patrick Shields (born 21 May 1963) is an Irish-American musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer, who achieved international fame as the lead vocalist and guitarist of the alternative rock band My Bloody Valentine. Their studio albums Isn't Anything (1988) and Loveless (1991) established Shields as a pioneering figure in the shoegaze genre. His texturised guitar sound and his experimentation with his guitars' tremolo systems resulted in the creation of the "glide guitar" technique, which became a recognisable aspect of My Bloody Valentine's sound, along with his meticulous production techniques.

## Quotes about Kevin Shields

* For an album with a photo of a guitar on its cover, My Bloody Valentine’s signature opus Loveless is what happens when Kevin Shields puts his mind to making that instrument sound like anything but. Thanks to some skillful, ingenious tremolo abuse, the opening siren of “Only Shallow” the moose call of “Touched,” and the woozy haze of “I Only Said” are as dramatic and jarring and alien and deeply influential musical moments as anything to come out of the eventful early ’90s — and it’s telling that Shields has never attempted to top it.
** Spin (May 3, 2012)
# Jeff Hanneman

Jeffrey John Hanneman (January 31, 1964 – May 2, 2013) was an American musician, best known as a founding member and co-lead guitarist of the thrash metal band Slayer. Hanneman composed both music and lyrics for every Slayer album until his death in 2013.

## Quotes about Jeff Hanneman

* The speed and aggression [in Slayer's music] came from Hanneman’s love for hardcore punk such as Minor Threat, TSOL, Dead Kennedys, Black Flag the Germs and more. This influence had an impact on [the band's] primitive sound which was the blueprint for all thrash metal bands to follow. Hanneman played and wrote music on every single Slayer album and is responsible for so many classic hits.
** Alex Distefano of OC Weekly (May 11, 2017)
* It’s fun to watch these guys live and see their virtually identical soloing styles. Jeff Hanneman, with atonal runs going up and down the neck, finished with a whammy bar dump! Kerry King, with atonal runs going up and down the neck, finished with a whammy bar dump! These guys were made to be in a band together – because they would sound terrible in any other band.
** Invisible Oranges (April 21, 2011)
* Even though [Hanneman] was at the heart of the [Slayer's] creative force musically and lyrically, he shed away from the public eye mostly and usually avoided interviews, leaving the talking to Kerry King of Tom Araya.
** Alex Distefano of OC Weekly (May 11, 2017)
# Melodic death metal

Melodic death metal (also referred to as melodeath) is a subgenre of death metal that employs highly melodic guitar riffs, often borrowing from traditional heavy metal (including New Wave of British Heavy Metal). The genre features the heaviness of death metal but with highly melodic or harmonized guitar riffs and solos, and often features high-pitched shrieked vocals (differing from traditional death metal) alongside the low-pitched growls commonly featured in traditional death metal. Pioneered by the English heavy metal band Carcass with their 1993 album Heartwork, melodic death metal developed further in Sweden (developed by bands like At the Gates, Dark Tranquillity, and In Flames) in the mid-1990s. The Swedish death metal scene did much to popularise the style, soon centering in the "Gothenburg metal" scene. At the Gates' Slaughter of the Soul, Dark Tranquillity's The Gallery, and In Flames' The Jester Race, all released in the mid-1990s, were highly influential albums in melodic death metal, with At the Gates and In Flames being the two most common influences on North American 2000s heavy metal bands. Many American heavy metal bands emulated At the Gates' sound, resulting in the usage of the phrase "At the Gates worship".

## Quotes about melodic death metal

* [Dave Murray and Adrian Smith of Iron Maiden] are the OG’s of the twin axe attack (and thus to blame for inadvertently causing melodic death metal).
** Invisible Oranges (April 21, 2011)
# Kerry King

Kerry Ray King (born June 3, 1964) is an American musician, best known for being the co-lead guitarist and songwriter of thrash metal band Slayer. He co-founded the band with Jeff Hanneman in 1981 and is one of two members to stay with the band for its 44-year existence, along with Tom Araya. During Slayer's hiatus from 2019 to 2024, King went on to pursue a solo career, with his debut album From Hell I Rise released in May 2024.

## Quotes about Kerry King

* It’s fun to watch these guys live and see their virtually identical soloing styles. Jeff Hanneman, with atonal runs going up and down the neck, finished with a whammy bar dump! Kerry King, with atonal runs going up and down the neck, finished with a whammy bar dump! These guys were made to be in a band together – because they would sound terrible in any other band.
** Invisible Oranges (April 21, 2011)
# Big Gigantic

Big Gigantic are an American instrumental electronic hip hop and jazz musical duo based in Boulder, Colorado.

## Quotes about Big Gigantic

* At this point, the guys behind Big Gigantic are bona fide funk experts.
** Billboard
# Zapp & Roger

Zapp (also known as the Zapp Band, Zapp & Roger) is an American funk band that emerged from Dayton, Ohio, United States, in 1977. Particularly influential in the electro subgenre of funk, Zapp were known for their trademark use of the talk-box effect. The original line-up consisted of four Troutman brothers—frontman Roger, Larry, Lester and Terry—first cousin, Sherman Fleetwood—and non-Troutman family members Bobby Glover, Gregory Jackson, Jerome Derrickson, Eddie Barber, Jannetta Boyce and Shirley Murdock. Zapp also worked closely with George Clinton and Bootsy Collins of Parliament-Funkadelic during its early stages, their support being a factor in the group gaining a record deal with Warner Bros. Records in 1979.

## Quotes about Zapp & Roger

* Zapp, later known as Zapp & Roger, exploded the world of funk music with their trademark bumping grooves and vocoder talk boxes.
** Niass of Ultimate-Guitar (Oct 26, 2017)