The term curatorial journalist has a rarefied feel to it
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Preventive Medicine, 2010
Today we think that smoking regulations are strict, but the upper crust of society 150 years ago was intolerant of the pastime, as Twain wrote: "At the hospitable mansion where I am a guest, I have to smoke surreptitiously when all are in bed, to save my reputation, and then draw suspicion upon the cat when the family detect the unfamiliar odor
In particular, The War and the Treaty and The Lumineers breathe some folky, Americana life into the album, pairing nicely with the plaintive melancholia of Bryans lyrics