Word: agee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...expecting too much," said Peter C. Warsaw '72, a music instructor. "Those [secret service] guys are certainly from a different planet. They take you back to the age of nine when you played cops and robbers and took it seriously...But once Bush stepped on the scene, it was very down to earth...
...appalling result of America's fixation with firearms was disclosed last week. A study by the National Center for Health Statistics found that 3,392 children ages 1 through 19 were killed in homicides, suicides and accidents with guns in 1987, accounting for 11% of deaths in that age group. No nation comes close to the U.S. in such fatalities. In 1985 not a single teenage male was the victim of gun-related homicide in England or Sweden...
ALTHOUGH these may sound like the voyeuristic, nostalgia-ridden complaints of a menopausal, male professor, there is, from the viewpoint of someone who came of age in the at-least-passionate, though surely not perfect 1960s, something dryly and barrenly antiseptic about this new somberness and deglandularization on the part of youth. There is, I want to shout at them, plenty of time left for the sobering domain of the reality principle to set in, for their ideas of love to be demystified therapized, psychoanalyzed and scrutinized by the masters of irony and the Internal Revenue Code...
...have written 20 years ago is exactly what sets it apart as something truly special. For music fans who have spent the summer listening to some of the other dinosaurs of rock and roll refusing to die before they get old, watching the Dead accept and acknowledge their age with grace and dignity through compositions like this one is a pleasure...
Because it has. The great thing about L.P.'s is that they age, they show time. What a sterile experience it will be 10 years from now listening to the Bruce Springsteen or Grateful Dead C.D. you bought in 1989 only to realize that it sounds the same as it ever did. You've grown up, but your album has stagnated in the late 1980s. That Sugar Cubes or Sinead O'Connor album that you played over and over again for a few months until it was warped and then you never listened to it again when the trend faded...