Schooldays

Not in the level of the previous track, but "Schooldays" didn't disappointed, it's true that the long vibraphone intro is not my cup of tea, but the excellent vocals by Derek save that section because he creates a haunting atmosphere when he fuses his voice with the instrument, when the rest of the band starts to join the song gains more coherence, and even the contradictory piano passage helps to maintain the interest of the listener.

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In Hogwarts, she nods to the classic genre of the English school story, established by "Tom Brown's Schooldays" in 1857.

How Harry Saved Reading Norman Lebrecht 2011

Thomas Hughes set his book "Tom Brown's Schooldays" in a somewhat romanticized version of which school that he himself had attended?

The Friday Brain-teaser from Credo Reference 2009

Explanatory Note When the Flashman Papers, that vast personal memoir describing the adult career of the notorious bully of Tom Brown's Schooldays, came to light some years ago, it was at once evident that new and remarkable material was going to be added to Victorian history.

The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010

President Grant was an admirer of Tom Brown's Schooldays and its author, Thomas Hughes, the Radical M.P. and social reformer, who (like his book) became extremely popular in the United States-Hughes even helped to found a model community in Tennessee, which was christened Rugby, after his old school.

Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

Each packet contained a book almost ready-made, and soon the public, who until then had been aware of Flashman only as the cowardly bully of Thomas Hughes's Tom Brown's Schooldays, were in possession of his illuminating and often scandalous accounts of the First Afghan War, the Schleswig-Holstein Question, the African-American slave trade, and the Crimean War.

Watershed 2010

The Character first appeared in Tom Brown's Schooldays by Thomas Hughes a victorian morality tale.

Jack Absolute by C.C. Humphreys jmnlman 2010

A vile volume entitled Tom Brown's Schooldays, on every page of which the disgusting Flashy was to be found torturing fags, shirking, toadying, lying, whining for mercy, and boozing himself to disgraceful expulsion - every word of it true, and all the worse for that.

THE NUMBERS 2010

Explanatory Note A singular feature of the Flashman Papers, the memoirs of the notorious bully of Tom Brown's Schooldays, which were discovered in a Leicestershire saleroom in 1966, is that their author wrote them in self-contained instalments, describing his background and setting the scene anew each time.

Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown\'s Schooldays It is typical of the petty that they are inflamed by the news of what they perceive to be the inequitable distribution of the H1N1 swine flu vaccine.

Christopher Brauchli: Banks and Vaccines 2009