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  • comparing it to the works of Philip K. Dick, Kurt Vonnegut and Hunter S. Thompson and writing "it may be a farrago of nonsense, but it's also unputdownable...
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    very similar in character. Joseph Smith's interpretation of these cuts is a farrago of nonsense from beginning to end. Egyptian characters can now be read...
    66 KB (6,964 words) - 14:25, 2 October 2024
  • Glenarvon (category Cultural depictions of Lord Byron)
    most diverting book that ever was written" and "the most absurd farrago of nonsense". After some banter about whether she is herself an innocent Calantha...
    6 KB (639 words) - 02:12, 22 October 2024
  • saw the inside of a school house. His habit of mind was singularly illogical and his public addresses the greatest farrago of nonsense that ever was put...
    22 KB (2,428 words) - 15:41, 2 November 2024
  • Him (Walken play) (category Cultural depictions of Elvis Presley)
    critics agreed on Walken's performance as "strange and rambling" or a "farrago of nonsense" while critics Thomas Hischak and Gerald Bordman identified it as...
    8 KB (989 words) - 02:30, 5 January 2024
  • story, merely a farrago of nonsense representing a series of practical studio compromises with an unworkable script. It is the kind of mistake over which...
    10 KB (1,214 words) - 08:01, 22 August 2024
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    variant of "Gangaridae", but another theory identifies it with Gandhari people. A. B. Bosworth dismisses Dionysius' account as "a farrago of nonsense", noting...
    28 KB (3,449 words) - 15:51, 29 October 2024
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    Peter Bergen (category Alumni of New College, Oxford)
    "a farrago of nonsense that is contravened by a multitude of eyewitness accounts, inconvenient facts and simple common sense." Author The Cost of Chaos:...
    48 KB (4,506 words) - 09:30, 17 November 2024
  • later wrote in his memoirs that "Captain Fury seemed like such a farrago of nonsense to me that I was very happy to know that Juarez would rescue me by...
    14 KB (1,723 words) - 00:50, 12 July 2024
  • Fred Copeman (category Officers of the Order of the British Empire)
    exhibit as a converted Communist. He later wrote a book which is a farrago of nonsense and self-aggrandisement. Copeman was closely monitored by the British...
    14 KB (1,729 words) - 11:08, 5 October 2024
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    Chris Aspin (category People from the Borough of Rossendale)
    Arkwright, 2012, HLHS ISBN 9780906881224 The Stair Lift Olympics: A Farrago of Nonsense, 2012, Royd ISBN 9781907197086 The Tuneful Foghorns: Light Verse...
    15 KB (1,649 words) - 09:31, 30 October 2024
  • Louis Levy. The New York Times wrote, "this story is really such a farrago of nonsense that one is sorry Maurice Elvey could not find better material to...
    10 KB (1,108 words) - 09:29, 29 September 2024
  • Robert Hunt (critic) (category Year of birth missing)
    Exhibition, of which he has published a Catalogue, or rather a farrago of nonsense, unintelligibleness, and egregious vanity, the wild effusions of a distempered...
    6 KB (788 words) - 19:15, 18 November 2017
  • Thomas William Allen (category Classical scholars of the University of Oxford)
    [T]he fact that such a farrago of nonsense is taken seriously by people of education and intelligence almost makes us despair of human progress" ("Christian...
    46 KB (5,238 words) - 10:34, 11 November 2024
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    was the author of the Malabar Manual also refutes the validity of the Keralolpathi and describes it as: a farrago of legendary nonsense having for its...
    4 KB (549 words) - 05:01, 9 November 2024
  • A London Farrago (1922) Mr Thake: his life and letters (1929) Mr Thake Again (1931) By the Way (1931) Morton's Folly (1933) The Adventures of Mr Thake...
    12 KB (1,698 words) - 01:47, 9 October 2024
  • The Fair and Vertuous Lady, tragi-comedy, 1661, 1665 A Farrago of several pieces, 1666 The Life of Tommaso the Wanderer, 1667 The Demoiselles à La Mode...
    10 KB (1,263 words) - 01:25, 23 September 2023
  • Dialectical materialism (category Ideology of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union)
    part of his 1957 work Theory and History: An Interpretation of Social and Economic Evolution. H. B. Acton described Marxism as "a philosophical farrago"....
    57 KB (6,643 words) - 13:15, 7 October 2024
  • host of the weekend classical music program Farrago until leaving the CBC in 2009. Throughout his radio career, Gothe was also a contributor of wine and...
    5 KB (519 words) - 02:18, 12 June 2023
  • contribution that has ever been made to the interpretation of Greek myth or else a farrago of cranky nonsense; I fear that it would be impossible to find any classical...
    14 KB (1,650 words) - 04:02, 27 September 2024
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