First held in 1965 - five years before Glastonbury came along - the Cambridge Folk Festival is very much the greybeard of the summer music scene, and while it may not be the last word in innovation, for sheer class and integrity, it can't be beaten.
The voices of change that lead through sheer will and integrity of character don't come every year, or even once in a generation, but sometimes only once in a lifetime.
So where are the contemporary politicians with the courage, integrity and sheer guts to stand up to the bias and toxicity of the rightwing press and speak out?
Within seconds I felt that this was the ultimate Trockadero ballet: the one that never relies too long on any one kind of humor but that has the most integrity as sheer choreography.
Football League chairman Greg Clarke said: "Jack Taylor set the benchmark for refereeing, not just in this country but across the world, and in later life he applied the same levels of integrity, commitment and sheer love of the game to his other roles in football".
I had made it through my panic attack by the skin of my teeth and the sheer resolve of my professional integrity that said, "You just have to!" I made it through and only a very few that I confided in ever even knew.
They proved well matched, especially in terms of tone and phrasing, passing ideas back and forth with scarcely a break in gestural integrity, even if the sheer character of Power's playing arguably won on points.
If Frankie Boyle wants to speed along Bernard Manning Boulevard, and destroy a hugely promising TV career in the mistaken belief that saying appalling things raises sheer cussedness to a zenith of moral integrity, that's his affair.
With the wisdom of hindsight, it is now clear that the sheer quality of the Obama intellect, and the solid integrity of his character, lulled many of those who twice voted for him into a false sense of security.
Brenda Sprague, deputy assistant secretary for passport services at the State Department, said human error and the sheer number of documents that the department produces will always challenge the integrity of the passport system.
