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...WASN'T very long ago that insomniacs were a lonely, over-looked bunch. No one paid much attention to you as you tossed and turned and fiddled with your radio dial, your depression increasing each time you heard the National Anthem at the close of another station's broadcast day. And then you just lay there and tried to sleep...
Shirley wanted the much-touted singers of his alma mater to join in the show by singing "Let Poland Be Poland," an anthem which has become the theme song of Solidarity...
MANY YEARS AGO, Townshend wrote what became an anthem of sorts for alienated youth called "My Generation." In that song, he delivered one of rock's most famous lyrics: "I hope I die before I get old." Every so often, Townshend seems to take a frightened look behind himself to make sure time isn't catching up. Quite possibly his self-destructive drinking binge that preceded this album was the manifestation of Townshend's belief he had finally had it. Some-how though, he managed to reach deep inside and fight back with a vengeance...
...must therefore be completely reformed. In The Paideia Proposal: An Educational Manifesto (Macmillan; $2.95), published this week, he proposes a sweeping, nationwide, twelve-year, single-track academic program with virtually no electives and no vocational training. The ringing words of the late Robert Maynard Hutchins are Adler's anthem: "The best education for the best is the best education...
...adjacent Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Warsaw residents had already begun to rebuild their cross. While government delegations laid wreaths to the solemn beat of drums, several hundred people gathered around the new cross, praying, flashing V signs and singing their own modified version of the national anthem. It includes such defiant lines as "Lead us Walesa, from the coast to Silesia/ Push on to victory, Polish Solidarity." The police removed the cross the next three days...