St. Edmund Campion ; canonized October 25, 1970; feast day October 25) was an English Jesuit priest who was martyred by the government of Queen Elizabeth I during the Reformation. He is venerated as the patron saint of the British Province of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits). The son of a London

Thomas Campion was an English poet, composer, musical and literary theorist, and physician. He was one of the outstanding songwriters of the brilliant English lutenist school of the late 16th and early 17th centuries. His lyric poetry reflects his musical abilities in its subtle mastery of rhythmic

Campo del Cielo craters, group of small craters in the Gran Chaco region, near the hamlet of Campo del Cielo, north-central Argentina. These craters were attributed in 1933 to meteoritic origin. The largest crater is 250 feet (75 metres); its rim stands 3 feet (1 metre) above the surrounding land.

Vasco Pratolini: …shut down Pratolini’s literary magazine, Campo di Marte, within nine months of its founding in 1939.

Treaty of Campo Formio, (October 17, 1797), a peace settlement between France and Austria, signed at Campo Formio (now Campoformido, Italy), a village in Venezia Giulia southwest of Udine, following the defeat of Austria in Napoleon Bonaparte’s first Italian campaign. The treaty preserved most of

Campo Grande, city, capital of Mato Grosso do Sul estado (state), southwestern Brazil. It lies near the headwaters of the Anhanduí River, in the Maracaju Mountains at 1,770 feet (540 metres) above sea level. Campo Grande is the largest city and the most active commercial centre of Mato Grosso do

Lisbon: Cultural life: The city’s old redbrick bullring, Campo Pequeno, with its Moorish arches and cupolas, draws natives and tourists alike to witness the Portuguese manner of bullfighting. Campo Pequeno reopened in 2006 after a major renovation, which included the addition of a shopping mall, a cinema, restaurants, and a supermarket.

Estanislao del Campo was an Argentine poet and journalist whose Fausto is one of the major works of gaucho poetry. Campo descended from a patrician family and fought to defend Buenos Aires against General Justo José de Urquiza’s troops. He continued his military career while writing, and he rose to

Siena: …large, shell-shaped square called the Piazza del Campo, which is the focus of Siena’s civic life. Tourists come to Siena in large numbers to view the Corsa del Palio, the famous horse races of medieval origin that are held twice annually on the Piazza del Campo amid colourful festivities. Standing…

Ramón de Campoamor y Campoosorio was a Spanish poet whose value lies in his expression of contemporary social attitudes. After studying Latin and philosophy, he went to Madrid, in 1838, to pursue a degree in medicine but turned to literature instead. Although his two early books, Ternezas y floras

Campobasso, city, capital of Molise regione (region), south-central Italy, northeast of Naples. The old town on a hill was abandoned in 1732 by its inhabitants, who built a new town on a lower fertile plain. The Castello Monforte (1459) with six towers of the medieval walls remains in the old town,

Campobello Island, second largest island (9 miles [14 km] long by 3 miles [5 km] wide), after Grand Manan, of a small island group at the entrance to Passamaquoddy Bay (an inlet of the Bay of Fundy), southwestern New Brunswick, southeastern Canada. Although politically Canadian and administered as

dipluran: Members of the family Campodeidae have two long slender abdominal cerci that are sensitive to vibrations.

dipluran: Members of the family Campodeidae have two long slender abdominal cerci that are sensitive to vibrations.

insect: Types of larvae: (caterpillar-like), scarabaeiform (grublike), campodeiform (elongated, flattened, and active), elateriform (wireworm-like), and vermiform (maggot-like). The three types of pupae are: obtect, with appendages more or less glued to the body; exarate, with the appendages free and not glued to the body; and coarctate, which is essentially exarate but remaining…

carpenter ant, (genus Camponotus), genus of more than 1,000 species of ants known for nesting in dead or decaying wood. Carpenter ants are found nearly worldwide in most terrestrial habitats and are particularly dominant in rainforest canopies. Ecologically, carpenter ants play an important role in

Argentina: The return of Peronism: The newly elected president, Héctor J. Cámpora, took office in May 1973. It was immediately clear that he was merely preparing the way for the return of Perón from exile. Tensions rose sharply among Peronists as the organization’s left wing fought with its right-wing Montoneros for influence. At the…

Campos dos Goytacazes, city, northeastern Rio de Janeiro estado (state), eastern Brazil. It is located 35 miles (56 km) up the Paraíba do Sul River from its mouth on the Atlantic coast of eastern Brazil, at 43 feet (13 metres) above sea level. One of the most important commercial cities of the

Amazon River: Physiography of the river course: …and stunted arboreal cover (campos). Other tributaries of the Negro, such as the Vaupés and Guainía, drain eastward from the Colombian Oriente. The river traverses some of the least populous and least disturbed parts of the Amazon basin, including several national parks, national forests, and indigenous reserves. In its…

Antonio Machado: …from pure introspection, and in Campos de Castilla (1912; “Plains of Castile”) he sought to capture the stark landscape and spirit of Castile in a severely denuded and sombre style. His later works, Nuevas canciones (1924; “New Songs”) and Poesías completas (1928; “Complete Poems”), express profound Existential views and reflect…

Campos dos Goytacazes, city, northeastern Rio de Janeiro estado (state), eastern Brazil. It is located 35 miles (56 km) up the Paraíba do Sul River from its mouth on the Atlantic coast of eastern Brazil, at 43 feet (13 metres) above sea level. One of the most important commercial cities of the

Campos dos Goytacazes, city, northeastern Rio de Janeiro estado (state), eastern Brazil. It is located 35 miles (56 km) up the Paraíba do Sul River from its mouth on the Atlantic coast of eastern Brazil, at 43 feet (13 metres) above sea level. One of the most important commercial cities of the

flicker: The campos, or pampas, flicker (C. campestris) and the field flicker (C. campestroides)—sometimes considered to be a single species—are common in east-central South America; they are darker birds with yellow faces and breasts.

Fernando Pessoa was one of the greatest Portuguese poets, whose Modernist work gave Portuguese literature European significance. From the age of seven Pessoa lived in Durban, S.Af., where his stepfather was Portuguese consul. He became a fluent reader and writer of English. With the hope of

Campos, Haroldo de; and Campos, Augusto de: Haroldo and Augusto were also both known as translators; between them they translated into Portuguese works of Ezra Pound (1960), E.E. Cummings (1960), James Joyce (1962), Stéphane Mallarmé (1970), and Vladimir Mayakovsky (1967).

Dilma Rousseff: First term: …the Brazilian Socialist Party candidate, Eduardo Campos, died in a plane crash in August. He was replaced by his running mate, green activist Marina Silva, whose candidacy seemed to resonate strongly with the electorate. Moreover, with the October 5 election approaching, Brazil refused to join more than 150 other countries…

Campos, Haroldo de; and Campos, Augusto de were poets and literary critics, best known as the prime movers in the creation of Brazilian concrete poetry in the 1950s. Together with the poets Décio Pignatari and Ferreira Gullar, the Campos brothers launched the first exposition of concrete poetry in

André Campra was one of the most important French composers of operas and sacred music of the early 18th century. Educated at Aix, Campra apparently became, at age 19, music master at Toulon Cathedral. He held similar posts at Arles in 1681 and Toulouse in 1683. In 1694 he became director of music

trumpet creeper, either of two species of ornamental vines of the genus Campsis (family Bignoniaceae, q.v.). Both are deciduous shrubs that climb by aerial rootlets. Campsis radicans, also called trumpet vine and cow itch, is a hardy climber native in eastern and southern United States; it produces

trumpet creeper: The Chinese trumpet creeper (C. grandiflora) of eastern Asia is a poor climber but produces spectacular bunches of brilliant scarlet flowers.

trumpet creeper: Campsis radicans, also called trumpet vine and cow itch, is a hardy climber native in eastern and southern United States; it produces terminal clusters of tubular, trumpet-shaped orange to orange-scarlet flowers (see photograph). The Chinese trumpet creeper (C. grandiflora) of eastern Asia is a poor climber but produces spectacular…

Camptosaurus, (genus Camptosaurus), large herbivorous dinosaurs found as fossils in western Europe and western North America that lived from the Late Jurassic Period (161.2 million to 145.5 million years ago) to the Early Cretaceous Period (145.5 million to 99.6 million years ago). Camptosaurus

Camptosaurus, (genus Camptosaurus), large herbivorous dinosaurs found as fossils in western Europe and western North America that lived from the Late Jurassic Period (161.2 million to 145.5 million years ago) to the Early Cretaceous Period (145.5 million to 99.6 million years ago). Camptosaurus

tyrannulet: …beardless tyrannulets of the genus Camptostoma. The northern form, C. imberbe, occurs north to Texas and Arizona (where it is called the beardless flycatcher), and the southern form, C. obsoletum, is found as far south as Argentina; their ranges meet in Costa Rica. The birds are called beardless for lack…

tyrannulet: …flycatcher), and the southern form, C. obsoletum, is found as far south as Argentina; their ranges meet in Costa Rica. The birds are called beardless for lack of bristles at the corners of the mouth.

Irvington, township (town), Essex county, northeastern New Jersey, U.S., bordering Newark to the east. Settled in 1666 as part of a land grant from Sir George Carteret, proprietor of New Jersey, it was known as Camptown until 1852, when it separated from Clinton township and was renamed in honour

Stephen Foster: They include “Camptown Races,” “Nelly Bly,” “My Old Kentucky Home,” “Massa’s in de Cold, Cold Ground,” “Old Dog Tray,” “Old Black Joe,” “Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair,” and “Beautiful Dreamer.”

South Asian arts: Period of the Tamil Cōḷa Empire (10th–13th century): From the 10th century on, campū narratives (part prose, part verse) became popular both in Kannada and in Telugu, as did renderings of the Sanskrit epics Rāmāyaṇa and Mahābhārata and Jaina legends and biography.

Câmpulung, town, Argeș județ (county), south-central Romania. It lies along the Târgului River at the foot of the Iezer and Păpușa mountains of the Transylvanian Alps. Originally it was a frontier post on a strategic road (now a highway) that crossed the Carpathians through Bran Pass in

garden and landscape design: Public design: Campus design begins when publicly accessible buildings grow into complexes of two or more, for religious, commercial, industrial, governmental, or educational use. Instead of or in addition to simple front-yard and backyard design, there are more complex systems of spaces between buildings, which vary from…

Campus Antiwar Network (CAN), college- and university-based antiwar organization in the United States that was formed to protest the Iraq War (2003–11). During the lead-up to the Iraq War in late 2002 and early 2003, college and university students in the United States organized a series of

Campus Martius, in ancient Rome, a floodplain of the Tiber River, the site of the altar of Mars and the temple of Apollo in the 5th century bce. Originally used primarily as a military exercise ground, it was later drained and, by the 1st century bce, became covered with large public

community radio: Origins of Modern Community Radio: …century expansion of the “campus radio” (also known as college radio) sector, which evolved concurrently with commercial radio starting in the 1920s. Through the middle of the 20th century, campus radio was used for experimentation and training, and public broadcasts often included local news, weather reports, public announcements, educational…

Alaric II: …in the battle of the Campus Vogladensis (Vouillé, in Poitou).

Bill Viola: …as Nam June Paik and Peter Campus. From 1974 to 1976 he was in Florence, working at an independent art video production facility, Art/Tapes/22. The Renaissance art that he was exposed to while living there became a major source of visual material for some of his later video productions. Another…

Robert Cooley Angell: Among his many works are The Campus (1928), which studies the undergraduate life of American universities; A Study of Undergraduate Adjustment (1930); The Family Encounters the Depression (1936); The Integration of American Society (1941); The Moral Integration of American Cities (1951); Free Society and Moral Crisis

mimetite: Campylite is any member of the pyromorphite-mimetite series distinguished by distorted crystals with curved faces. For detailed physical properties, see arsenate mineral (table).

campylobacter, (genus Campylobacter), group of spiral-shaped bacteria that can cause human diseases such as campylobacter enteritis (campylobacteriosis), which begins abruptly with fever, headache, diarrhea, and significant abdominal pain. Campylobacter jejuni is the most common cause of

campylobacter, (genus Campylobacter), group of spiral-shaped bacteria that can cause human diseases such as campylobacter enteritis (campylobacteriosis), which begins abruptly with fever, headache, diarrhea, and significant abdominal pain. Campylobacter jejuni is the most common cause of

campylobacteriosis, a disease of cattle, sheep, and humans caused by bacteria of the genus Campylobacter. Vaccines are available against the disease in cattle and sheep. In humans, campylobacteriosis is the chief form of food poisoning. The disease is often contracted from contact with raw chicken.

Guillain-Barré syndrome: Risk factors and symptoms: …to occur following infection with Campylobacter jejuni, a species of bacteria that causes diarrhea and vomiting. However, other infections, including those involving cytomegalovirus, Epstein-Barr virus, and influenza virus, can also increase risk of the condition.

campylobacteriosis, a disease of cattle, sheep, and humans caused by bacteria of the genus Campylobacter. Vaccines are available against the disease in cattle and sheep. In humans, campylobacteriosis is the chief form of food poisoning. The disease is often contracted from contact with raw chicken.

scythebill, any of several birds of Central and South American tropical forests, belonging to the genus Campylorhamphus. The five species are woodcreepers (family Dendrocolaptidae, order Passeriformes), with long downcurved bills that are as much as one-third of the bird’s total length, which is

scythebill, any of several birds of Central and South American tropical forests, belonging to the genus Campylorhamphus. The five species are woodcreepers (family Dendrocolaptidae, order Passeriformes), with long downcurved bills that are as much as one-third of the bird’s total length, which is

wren: species is the 20-cm cactus wren (Campylorhynchus brunneicapillus) of southwestern deserts; it is more common in Mexico. Tiny wood wrens (Henicorhina) are found in tropical forests and the little marsh wrens (Cistothorus, Telmatodytes) in tropical and temperate wetlands. Exceptional singers include the Carolina wren (Thryothorus ludovicianus) of the eastern…

Hangzhou, city and capital of Zhejiang sheng (province), China. The city is located in the northern part of the province on the north bank of the Qiantang River estuary at the head of Hangzhou Bay. It has water communications with the interior of Zhejiang to the south, is the southern terminus of

camshaft, in internal-combustion engines, a rotating shaft with attached disks of irregular shape (the cams), which actuate the intake and exhaust valves of a piston and cylinder. The cams and the camshaft are usually formed as a unit, with the cams set at angles to open and close the valves in a

Camú River, river in north-central and northeastern Dominican Republic. Its headstreams rise in the Cordillera Central near La Vega. Other tributaries flow from the Cordillera Septentrional near Moca. The Camú, about 50 miles (80 km) long, flows generally eastward across the fertile La Vega Real

Colchester, town and borough (district), administrative and historic county of Essex, England. It occupies the northeastern part of the county on the River Colne. As Camulodunum, the town of Colchester was the capital of the pre-Roman Belgic ruler Cunobelinus and is so named on his coins. Although

Albert Camus was a French novelist, essayist, and playwright, best known for such novels as L’Étranger (1942; The Stranger), La Peste (1947; The Plague), and La Chute (1956; The Fall) and for his work in leftist causes. He received the 1957 Nobel Prize for Literature. Less than a year after Camus

Marcel Camus was a French motion-picture director who won international acclaim for his second film, Orfeu Negro (Black Orpheus) in 1958. The film was praised for its use of exotic settings and brilliant spectacle and won first prize at both the Cannes and Venice film festivals as well as an Oscar

replacement theory: …the French writer and activist Renaud Camus. He argued that since the 1970s, Muslim immigrants in France have shown disdain for French society and have been intent on destroying the country’s cultural identity and ultimately replacing its white Christian population in retaliation for France’s earlier colonization of their countries of…

Kraftwerk: …included such innovative bands as Can, Faust, and Neu!, but Kraftwerk became the best known.

Andean Community, South American organization founded to encourage industrial, agricultural, social, and trade cooperation. Formed in 1969 by the Cartagena Agreement, the group originally consisted of Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Chile; Venezuela joined in 1973 but withdrew in 2006, and

Campus Antiwar Network (CAN), college- and university-based antiwar organization in the United States that was formed to protest the Iraq War (2003–11). During the lead-up to the Iraq War in late 2002 and early 2003, college and university students in the United States organized a series of

The answer is “No”—except when they do. Like so many things that appear straightforward, this issue of whether a living person can appear on U.S. currency is complicated. The answer seems to hinge on whether you’re talking about the “letter of the law” or the “spirit of the law.” The spirit of the

Among legal scholars, pundits, and politicians, the most common answer to this question is no. According to this view, the Twenty-second Amendment (1951) to the Constitution of the United States effectively prohibits any twice-elected president from serving a third term; it also blocks a second

Animals cannot predict the weather in the ways that humans do. However, animals can sense changes in the weather that humans cannot. According to experts, animals possess an extraordinary ability to detect subtle shifts in their environment, from fluctuations in atmospheric pressure to seasonal and

If you hit it with enough force, or hit it in just the right way, almost anything can break—that is, separate into pieces. Even the hardest materials we know of—including diamonds, wurtzite, boron nitride, moissanite, and corundum—can be fractured. For instance, it’s possible to shatter a diamond

As you watch someone carelessly munching on an apple core, some vague alarm bells go off in your head. Didn’t you hear somewhere that apple seeds are poisonous? Well, apple seeds can indeed be poisonous, but it takes quite a few of them to kill you and only if they have been crushed. Apple seeds

Money management can seem daunting. Life holds so many things to remember and keep track of—it might feel like the deck is stacked against you. But there are several things you can do to put at least some of your finances on autopilot. Automatic bill pay, scheduled transfers, a good budgeting app,

Situationist International: …peut-elle casser des briques? (1973; Can Dialectics Break Bricks?) serves as a prime example of détournement in action. Viénet took an already existing Hong Kong martial arts film and replaced its dialogue, changing the meaning of the original story into a newly “detourned” film about the politicized proletariat training to…

Poppy seeds can cause a positive drug test for opiates. The edible nutritious seeds come from the opium poppy (Papaver somniferum), the same plant that is used to produce opium, heroin, morphine, and codeine. Although the seeds themselves do not contain opiates, they are frequently contaminated

You’ve been on a health kick and have been bingeing on baby carrots as your afternoon snack. You look in the mirror one day and notice a slight orangeness to your skin tone. Are you imagining things? Maybe not. Carrots and other orange fruits and vegetables are rich in a pigment known as

polyphonic prose: …its techniques in her book Can Grande’s Castle (1918).

Anatolia: The Chalcolithic Period: At Hacılar and Can Hasan, the heavy ground-floor chambers of these houses had no doorways and were evidently entered by ladders from a more fragile upper story. Improvements in architecture at this period, however, can be seen at Mersin, where one of its later phases is represented by…

“Lightning never strikes the same place twice” is a common phrase you’ve probably heard before, often used to reassure someone that whatever bad thing has happened, it won’t happen again. It can even be used when something good happens, such as winning the lottery, but the underlying truth remains.

Not to make you scared of your favorite zesty citrus fruit, but yes, limes can burn you. Under the right conditions, contact with lime juice followed by exposure to sunlight can trigger a reaction called phytophotodermatitis—phyto meaning “plant,” photo meaning “light,” and dermatitis meaning “skin

Dana Gioia: …Monthly the controversial article “Can Poetry Matter?” In it he questioned the state of poetry’s readership and proposed ideas to revive public interest in poetry in general. His assertion that poetry was being read only by scholars caused debate among literary circles as to the role of poetry in…

When a salamander loses a limb, the tissues at the stump undergo a fascinating transformation. They dedifferentiate, meaning they lose their specialized characteristics and revert to a more embryonic state. This process forms a blastema, a mass of undifferentiated cells that eventually grows into a

Several forces can cause a plant (or a structure within a plant) to burst. Some of these “explosions” are by design: A number of plants (including milkweed, touch-me-nots, squirting cucumbers, and blue violets) use the pressure built up in their tissues over a period of growth to launch their seeds

Can Tho, city and province-level municipality, southern Vietnam. Situated on the left bank of the Hau Giang River, less than 100 miles (161 km) southwest of Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon), it is a commercial center and the largest city of the flat delta region of the Mekong River, which

“I whole-heartedly detest writing to follow the crowd.” These are the words of Chinese writer Can Xue in a 2013 interview with the literary magazine Asymptote. At the time, she had already acquired a reputation as one of the most unique and challenging avant-garde authors in contemporary

You may have heard that you can get water from a cactus if you are ever lost and dehydrated in a desert.* Sounds like a nice survival tip to store away, but is it really that easy? Turns out, a cactus is not actually a spine-covered basin of fresh water. Such a plant would not last long in an arid

Melissa McCarthy: Roles from the late 2010s: …celebrity biographer Lee Israel in Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018). In The Kitchen (2019) McCarthy joined an all-star female cast playing a trio of mob wives who take over their husbands’ work in 1970s New York City.

Elton John: Compositions for film and stage: …Lion King (1994), and “Can You Feel the Love Tonight” won the Academy Award for best original song; the movie was adapted into a Broadway musical in 1997 (see The Lion King). That same year, a new version of his 1973 song “Candle in the Wind,” which commemorates movie…

Can You Forgive Her?, novel by Anthony Trollope, published serially in 1864–65 and in two volumes in 1864–65. The work was the first of his Palliser novels, named for the character of Plantagenet Palliser, who is introduced in this novel. It tells the interwoven stories of two women, Alice Vavasor

Are you fanatic about film? Has anyone called you a cinephile? If so, then this photo challenge is for you. From just the scenes pictured, can you identify the iconic movies? Spotlight, movie, quiz, Titanic, The Silence of the Lambs, Moonlight, Inception, Sound of Music, Britannica, Encyclopaedia

Tax-advantaged retirement accounts can help you build wealth for the future and improve your chances of a comfortable retirement. That can make it tempting to open multiple IRAs, including Roth IRAs, which offer a strategy for tax-free retirement income. But can you have multiple Roth IRAs in

In the United States all 50 states require certain vaccinations for public and private school entry, but exemptions are allowed for medical reasons in every state and for religious or personal beliefs in many states, though the rules vary. California, Connecticut, Maine, New York, and West

A friend jumps out at you when you’re turning a corner. Your heart starts pounding, and you gasp. “You scared me to death!” you say. Of course, the fact that you can utter this common phrase means that you are not deceased. But saying this is so common, in fact, that we have to ask the question: Is

You’re in your weekly yoga class, inverted and stretching out your body as piped-in sitar music plinks soothingly in the background. Concentrating, you ease further into the position. A drop of sweat slides down the bridge of your nose and pools on your yoga mat. The instructor croons, “That’s

.While fashion rules come and go, one endured for decades in the United States: don’t wear white after Labor Day. Its origins date to the late 1800s of the Gilded Age. During the summer months, the wealthy often left the sweltering city for cooler vacation homes. There, white clothing reigned

Lydia Davis: …book of new short stories, Can’t and Won’t, in 2014. In addition to stories, she published a novel, The End of the Story (1995), in which a writer tries to make sense of a breakup with a boyfriend by writing a novel about it. The narrative incorporates elements from Davis’s…

Jimmy Breslin: …the 1962 New York Mets, Can’t Anybody Here Play This Game? (1963), became a best seller and led to a job as a news columnist for the New York Herald Tribune, where he was regarded as one of the pioneers of New Journalism. Later, as a syndicated columnist and contributor…

Miley Cyrus: Hannah Montana and early music career: ,” and the full-length album Can’t Be Tamed (2010). In addition, she took starring movie roles in the romantic drama The Last Song (2010) and the low-budget coming-of-age tale LOL (2012).

Steely Dan: …Dias, emerging in 1972 with Can’t Buy a Thrill. To everyone’s surprise, Steely Dan’s debut album spawned the hits “Do It Again” and “Reelin’ in the Years.” By the time Fagen and Becker finished their second album, Countdown to Ecstasy (1973), they had sacked vocalist David Palmer, leaving Fagen as…

LeAnn Rimes: …2000 film Coyote Ugly, “Can’t Fight the Moonlight,” and the single was a hit. Rimes’s 2007 release Family showcased her talents as a songwriter and pushed her total album sales over the 37 million mark. On Lady & Gentlemen (2011), she interpreted songs by male country artists. Her later…

Dubai chocolate, chocolate candy bar filled with toasted, shredded phyllo dough (kataifi) mixed with pistachio cream and tahini. It was first produced and distributed in 2022 by the Dubai-based FIX Dessert Chocolatier (and marketed as the “Can’t Get Knafeh of It” candy bar). The satisfyingly

Norman Taurog: Elvis movies: …with the signature tune “Can’t Help Falling in Love”; Girls! Girls! Girls! (1962), which featured “Return to Sender”; and It Happened at the World’s Fair (1963), with Presley performing at the Seattle World’s Fair. Although they were box-office successes, critics derided the films as formulaic and musically uninspired.