"That," says Oakey, without the faintest trace of irony, "is the height of great artistry".
No mention is made of the height of Great Uncle Cole, who raised jack mules and lived on a big farm, Red Fields, just over the state border in Iowa.
The north-west ridge continues from Lower Man over Browncove Crags, becoming almost insignificant when it reaches the shore of Thirlmere, yet still separating the valley of Helvellyn Gill from the reservoir, before finally rising again to the wooded height of Great How at its terminus.
On the femoral side, the lengthening of the tip of the greater trochanter was calculated by subtracting the postoperative height of the greater trochanter from the preoperative height; the height of the greater trochanter was measured as the vertical distance between the teardrop line and the tip of the greater trochanter.
Thom Yorke's lyrics may be irritatingly elliptical - lazy shorthand for cliched alienation - but in this instance the pure power of his voice and the symphonic grandeur of the band's sound elevated them to the heights of great art.
If CSNY coming together and, more frequently, breaking up and staying apart, was one lasting pattern established in that seminal period, so too was the pattern of Young attaining the heights of great popularity and then subverting it to maintain his own sense of authenticity.
At the height of the Great Depression, probably the greatest climate for radical organizing in American history, the Socialist Party actually managed to lose almost all its California members.
Indeed, it was at the height of the Great Depression that San Francisco undertook two great civil engineering projects, simultaneously constructing the San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge and the Golden Gate Bridge, completing them in 1936 and 1937 respectively.
Then came the great flood of 1927, and at the height of the Great Depression three years later the crops failed.
