Today all kinds of sounds, from all manner of places, claim to derive their pedigree from that original vital source.Mr Giddins's massive volume collects a quarter-century of reportage, and his wide-ranging taste and deep acquaintance, not just with jazz but with classical music and culture generally, give it a special coherence and point.
"Chinese sellers can make all manner of false claims," Mr. Midler said in an e-mail.
What began with good-natured ribbing from a somewhat excited Andy Burnham about the potential of the British team was met with all manner of counter claims and a dose of Australian humour.
As sure as mushrooms pop up after the rain, all manner of schemes claiming to protect you from the next disaster appear after a market crash.
Although Habermas does not consider such claims to represent a mind-independent world in the manner of empirical truth claims, they can be both publicly criticized as unjustifiable and defended by publicly convincing arguments.
Protesters from all walks of life have occupied Taksim Square and its park, objecting to what they say is Mr Erdogan's increasingly autocratic and arrogant manner of governing - claims he vehemently denies.
He writes, for example, in the New Scientist that "Religious structures are built by humans and brim with all manner of strange human claims — they often reflect cults of personality, xenophobia or mental illness.
Those on the right fear that the new super-quango will become a focus for all manner of nonsensical discrimination claims (from the wilder shores of human-rights law, for instance).Left-wing activists have other complaints.
There also seems to be no shortage of doctors ready to see only those who can pay exorbitant rates to see them as well as all manner of snake charmers claiming to those desperate for treatment that everything from ground earthworms to metal amulets can cure them of Lyme.
But, when it comes to doing something about it, out trots the Chamber of Commerce and the Club for Growth, and all manner of Koch-istas, claiming with utter certainty that the apocalypse will befall us: translation, do not do anything that may make a corporation accountable, financially or otherwise.
