Aside from the religious references the calendar carried, Duncan Steel, author of Marking Time, believes the novelty of the calendar's month names alone helped prevent the wide acceptance of this proposal.

Jacques Morali ( 4 July 1947 – 15 November 1991 ) was a French music author and creator of disco music and novelty acts like Village People.

According to Vicenzo Perna, author of Timba: The Sound of the Cuban Crisis, timba needs to be spoken of because of its musical, cultural, social, and political reasons ; its sheer popularity in Cuba, its novelty and originality as a musical style, the skill of its practitioners, its relationship with both local traditions and the culture of the black Diaspora, its meanings, and the way its style brings to light the tension points within society.

Ramel was a singer, pianist, vaudeville artist, author and a novelty song composer.

This work caused some commotion, as much by the novelty of its method as by the heterodoxy of its matter, and more by its omissions than by its positive teaching, though everywhere the author seeks to put theological doctrines in a decidedly modern form.

Such heavy use of product placement was not only a novelty in literature but also unprecedented for a published, established author ( The Bulgari Connection was her 23rd novel ), and a front-page article was published about it in the New York Times, quoting such writers as Rick Moody, J. G. Ballard, Michael Chabon, and Jeanette Winterson.

For the most part, these adaptations attempt either to appeal to an existing commercial audience ( the adaptation of best sellers and the " prestige " adaptation of works ) or to tap into the innovation and novelty of a less well known author.

The store's designs confronted social and sexual taboos, and included T-shirts bearing images of the Cambridge Rapist's face hood, semi-naked cowboys from a 1969 illustration by the US artist Jim French, a trompe-l ' œil image of bare breasts from a novelty shirt first produced by Rhode island School Of Art students Janusz and Laura Gottwald in the late 60s, and pornographic texts from the book School for Wives by the beat author Alexander Trocchi.

The cross-index, now commonplace, was a novelty in the 18th century, and several persons created indexes for older books of learning, allowing anyone to find what an author had to say about a given topic at a moment's notice.

The focus of novelty in this world now lay in the south-eastern districts of the Greek mainland, and by 800 virtually the entire Aegean, always excepting its northern shores, had accepted the Geometric style of pottery.

Despite the opposition of the city newspapers, the Pratt Hall meeting `` brought together a very respectable audience, composed in part of those who had been distinguished for years for their radical views upon the subject of slavery, of many of our colored citizens, and of those who were attracted to the place by the novelty of such a gathering ''.

These patrons were intrigued by the novelty of a female writer and had her compose texts about their romantic exploits.

As human culture advanced, different populations of humans introduced novelty to existing technologies: artifacts such as fish hooks, buttons and bone needles show signs of variation among different populations of humans, something that had not been seen in human cultures prior to 50, 000 BP.

Accepting the overlordship of the king of the English was no novelty, previous kings had done so without result.

The secret ballot, then considered a novelty, had not yet been introduced in Canada.

As Australian television was in black and white until 1975 these theatrical releases all had the novelty of being in colour.

Others, however, emphasized its theoretical novelty, and argued that evolutionary stasis had been " unexpected by most evolutionary biologists " and " had a major impact on paleontology and evolutionary biology ".

By this period, a number of clans had fallen by the wayside, leaving the Reizei and the Nijo family ; the former stood for " progressive " approaches, the varied use of the " ten styles " and novelty, while the latter conservatively hewed to already established norms and the " ushin " ( deep feelings ) style that dominated courtly poetry.

Viz has had many different spoof adverts for various items, such as ornaments, dolls, sheds, china plates and novelty chess sets.

And as his understanding sought in vain for an explanation and his heart was filled with perplexity at the great novelty of this vision, the marks of nails began to appear in his hands and feet, just as he had seen them slightly earlier in the crucified man above him.

Maslin agreed ; she said that while it " takes aim at targets that are none too fresh ", and that the theme of nonconformity did not surprise, the film had its own " corrosive novelty ".

The so-called purple government was a political novelty, because the Christian Democrats had been in government since 1918.

" In the early 1970s a novelty act known as Daddy Dewdrop had a top 10 hit single in the US titled " Chick-A-Boom ," one of Carmen's trademark song phrases, although the resemblance ended there.

He felt that the main strength of the paratroopers was novelty, and now that the British had clearly figured out how to defend against them, there was no real point to using them any more.

She came to prominence in the early 1950s with the novelty hit " Come On-a My House " written by William Saroyan and his cousin Ross Bagdasarian ( better known as David Seville, the father figure of Alvin and the Chipmunks ), which was followed by other pop numbers such as " Botch-a-Me " ( a cover version of the Italian song Ba-Ba-Baciami Piccina by Alberto Rabagliati ), " Mambo Italiano ", " Tenderly ", " Half as Much ", " Hey There " and " This Ole House ", although she had success as a jazz vocalist.

He had a knack for marketing, sometimes taking out full-page newspaper advertisements for the books he published, a novelty at the time.

By 1934, he had a major record hit with his own novelty composition, " Inka Dinka Doo ," the lyrics of which were written by Ben Ryan to music that Durante himself composed.

Before the modern novel became established as a form there first had to be a transitional stage when " novelty " began to appear in the style of the epic poem.

Although Decca had set up the first of the British " progressive " labels, Deram Records, in 1966, with such stars as Cat Stevens and The Moody Blues, by the time the punk era set in 1977, Decca had pop success with such acts as John Miles, novelty creation Father Abraham and The Smurfs, and productions by longtime Decca associate Jonathan King.

The technique appears in English Romantic poetry, particularly in the poetry of Wordsworth, and was defined in the following way by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, in his Biographia Literaria: " To carry on the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood ; to combine the child ’ s sense of wonder and novelty with the appearances which every day for perhaps forty years had rendered familiar.

Before the closing of the theatres, all female roles had been played by boys, and the predominantly male audiences of the 1660s and 1670s were curious, censorious, and delighted at the novelty of seeing real women engage in risqué repartee and take part in physical seduction scenes.

But though The Light of the World ( 1891 ), in which this took shape, had considerable poetic merit, it lacked the novelty of theme and setting which had given the earlier poem much of its attractiveness ; and it failed to repeat the success gained by The Light of Asia.

Scott's novelty record " My Brother " ( written by Mitch Murray, released 1962 on PYE ) was based on this schoolboy character ( he dressed in the uniform to sing it on TV ) and received regular airplay on BBC Radio ( in particular Ed ' Stewpot ' Stewart's Saturday and Sunday morning programme Junior Choice which was simultaneous broadcast on BBC Radio 1 and 2 ) for many years.

Le Mesurier also teamed up with another ex-Dad's Army colleague, Clive Dunn, to record a novelty single, " There Ain't Much Change from a Pound These Days " / " After All These Years ", which had been written by Le Mesurier's step-son, David Malin.

The fourth film in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series, Dumbo is based upon the storyline written by Helen Aberson and illustrated by Harold Pearl for the prototype of a novelty toy (" Roll-a-Book ").

Hansen has a degree in ethnomusicology, and has written magazine articles and liner notes on recording artists outside of the novelty genre.

His repertoire consisted mostly of covers of songs written by Hopkins, Bob Dylan, and others, as well as original novelty songs like " Fraternity Blues.

The music of American composer Raymond Scott is sometimes recognized as a precursor to exotica, as several of his songs were written with the intent of transporting the listener to exotic locations via novelty instruments and sound effects.

The song was written by novelty tune specialist, Bob Merrill.

In 1947, Godfrey had a surprise hit record with the novelty " Too Fat Polka ( She's Too Fat For Me )" written by Ross MacLean and Arthur Richardson.

It goes on to say that at the royal city of Rabbah of the Ammonites, his giant bedstead could still be seen as a novelty at the time the narrative was written.

" What You Won't Do for Love " in its novelty vinyl incarnationReaching the top ten on both the pop (# 9 ) R & B (# 6 ) AC (# 10 ) charts, the song proved to be a success, though a bit of a surprise one due both to the haste with which it was written and the fact that Caldwell assumed " My Flame ", the LP's second track (" What You Won't Do for Love " is the sixth ), would wind up as the standout single.

His third single, a novelty song called " Over The Wall We Go " ( 1967 ) was written and produced by a young David Bowie, and it gained a degree of notoriety because of Bowie's tongue-in-cheek lyrics concerning escaped prisoners and incompetent cops, which satirised a rash of highly-publicised prison break-outs in the UK.

A song entitled " Oh Bantha ", which paid tribute to the gastronomy of these fictional characters, was written and performed by popular actor John O ' Hurley and released on " Tusken Raider Tunes, Parody Songs from a Galaxy Far Far Away ", a limited edition Star Wars-themed novelty album.

He had a surprise UK Top 5 chart hit in August 1975 with the novelty record " Funky Moped ", written by Chris Rohmann and produced by Jeff Lynne.

An added attraction was Penner's in-character singing each week of a whimsical novelty song, specially written to suit his style.

: " By further reflecting that the clearest evidence would be requisite to make any sane man believe in the miracles by which Christianity is supported, — that the more we know of the fixed laws of nature the more incredible, do miracles become, — that the men at that time were ignorant and credulous to a degree almost incomprehensible by us, — that the Gospels cannot be proved to have been written simultaneously with the events, — that they differ in many important details, far too important as it seemed to me to be admitted as the usual inaccuracies of eyewitness ; — by such reflections as these, which I give not as having the least novelty or value, but as they influenced me, I gradually came to disbelieve in Christianity as a divine revelation.

When it was first written, the Mac was new, and Graphical user interface ( GUI ) software was a novelty, so Apple took great pains to ensure that programs would conform to a single shared look and feel.

Ironically, the novelty song that Boyd declined to record had been written by country music legend Hank Williams.

* " The Scotsman ," a novelty song written by Mike Cross, featured on the Dr. Demento 20th Anniversary Collection album.

" Purple People Eater " is a novelty song, written and performed by Sheb Wooley, that reached # 1 in the Billboard pop charts in 1958.

*" Cinderella Rockefella ," a novelty single written by Mason Williams and Nancy Ames, and most famously released by the Israeli duo group Esther and Abi Ofarim, a married couple, in 1968

Critics who had written off Ana Bárbara as simply a grupero novelty built chiefly upon sex appeal consequently took her and her music a bit more seriously.

" Sink the Bismark " ( later " Sink the Bismarck ") is a novelty song, written by country music singer Johnny Horton and Tillman Franks, based on the pursuit and eventual sinking of the German battleship Bismarck in May 1941, during World War II.