Why haven't Tea Partiers acknowledged their debt to a less-obscure text, Herbert Hoover's 1928 "rugged individualism" speech?
The game designer Gary Gygax, in a foreword to a 2004 edition of the book, credits "Little Wars" with influencing his own set of rules for medieval-period miniature wars, Chainmail — which in turn became the basis of a slightly less obscure role-playing game: Dungeons & Dragons.
Mr. Glasgow, who is the half-brother of a far less obscure crusader based in New York, the Rev. Al Sharpton, believes that not only do inmates and former convicts want to vote, but also that their ballots could alter the political landscape in this Republican-leaning state, adding that his group has registered more than 500 people by visiting a handful of county jails.
Word got around, and an artist whose music was easy to follow even if its referents were hard to determine — having crafted his individual, worldly, not-quite-jazz in various basements in New York, Buenos Aires and Barcelona — became a little less obscure that week.
Yet, Seeley remained a more or less obscure player.
Darwin (1878, p. 396) encapsulated these ideas by observing that, "Embryology rises greatly in interest, when we look at the embryo as a picture, more or less obscure, of the progenitor, either in its adult or larval state, of all members of the same great class".
Not exactly a reliable guide, but less obscure than the Delphi Oracle and more than random noise".
And it was while tasting another of Indigo's portfolio from a place which, from a wine point of view, is scarcely less obscure – the reds made by the 4 Kilos winery on Mallorca – that a penny dropped.
