Word: antiwar
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...sounding desperate or polemical, the best of these quiet, well- observed songs do something far tougher--create a mood. Lua, about seduction and loneliness, feels like a shameful walk home on a winter morning, while Landlocked Blues starts as a breakup song and meanders its way into an antiwar ballad. The link, at least by Oberst's reckoning, is futility, and whether you agree with his politics or not, his emotions are believable...
...sounding desperate or polemical, the best of these quiet, well-observed songs do something far tougher-create a mood. Lua, about seduction and loneliness, feels like a shameful walk home on a winter morning, while Landlocked Blues starts as a breakup song and meanders its way into an antiwar ballad. The link, at least by Oberst's reckoning, is futility, and whether you agree with his politics or not, his emotions are believable. Best Tracks: Lua, Landlocked Blues, Road...
McCarthy ran for President four more times, to little note. Some aides complained of his diffidence and cynicism. Yet in one lightning flash, he had diagnosed the national exhaustion that a dead-end war brings and proved that antiwar fervor could change voters' minds. This was not so much political strategy as the almost theological mission of the amateur philosopher and published poet McCarthy was. Lines from his poem "Vietnam Message" could be the words of Gandhi or Pablo Neruda: "We will take our napalm and flame throwers/ out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches...
...with the Campus Anti-War Network’s “National Day of Counter-Recruitment,” a multi-city demonstration organized to voice opposition to the Solomon Amendment and the Iraq war, according to the group’s website. Upon arriving, the 40-person antiwar group clashed with an equally passionate throng of 15 Solomon Amendment supporters. At one point, the two groups fought for acoustic superiority as they simultaneously belted out renditions of “God Bless America” and an original antiwar song. But after the dual came to a close...
...point, the two groups fought for acoustic superiority as they simultaneously belted out renditions of “God Bless America” and an original antiwar song. But after the dual came to a close, the protesters returned to using megaphones and amplifiers to bombard pedestrians and legal experts exiting the court...