Culture
On different days, experts would talk about their specialties, particularly in relation to Argonauts' contributions:
- Monday: Alan Colefax ("Tom the Naturalist") on nature and wildlife
- Tuesday: Albert Collins then Jeffrey Smart as "Phidias" on art and painting
- Wednesday: A. D. Hope ("Antony Inkwell") or Leslie Luscombe ("Argus") or John Gunn ("Icarus") on writing and literature
- Thursday: Lindley Evans ("Mr Melody Man"), introduced by a few bars of Anatoly Lyadov's The Music Box, played and spoke on music performance and composition.
- Guests on his segment included basso Alexander Kipnis, oboist Léon Goossens, singer Joan Hammond, Geoffrey Parsons, conductor Richard Bonynge, French horn virtuoso Barry Tuckwell, Patricia "Paddy" Tuckwell (violinist, model, sister of Barry) and conductor composer Malcolm Williamson. Several of these were Argonauts in their younger days.
- Friday was The Argosy, entirely devoted to members' contributions selected from the many thousands that might have arrived in the previous month, usually on a particular theme.
- Saturday featured Argonaut Charades when the three-syllable word and the skits leading to its solution were outlined by club members and played by professional actors
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Famous quotes containing the word culture:
“Culture is the suggestion, from certain best thoughts, that a man has a range of affinities through which he can modulate the violence of any master-tones that have a droning preponderance in his scale, and succor him against himself. Culture redresses this imbalance, puts him among equals and superiors, revives the delicious sense of sympathy, and warns him of the dangers of solitude and repulsion.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“To assault the total culture totally is to be free to use all the fruits of mankind’s wisdom and experience without the rotten structure in which these glories are encased and encrusted.”
—Judith Malina (b. 1926)
“There has never been in history another such culture as the Western civilization M a culture which has practiced the belief that the physical and social environment of man is subject to rational manipulation and that history is subject to the will and action of man; whereas central to the traditional cultures of the rivals of Western civilization, those of Africa and Asia, is a belief that it is environment that dominates man.”
—Ishmael Reed (b. 1938)