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Maybe pop music's prominence shouldn't have surprised me. At least, Allan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind should have dulled the shock. Bloom wrote that "rock music has one appeal only, a barbaric appeal, to sexual desire--not love, not eros, but sexual desire undeveloped and untutored." Because sexual desire is universal, pop music "knows neither class nor nation." Consequently, pop music is a sort of teenage Esperanto: Every pubescent youth, regardless of nationality, should be attracted to the "masturbatorial fantasy" it promises...
...already seems well launched toward stardom, anyone who expects her to take the low road to popular acclaim is in for a surprise. "I am asked so many times," she says, "what do you think, that classical music is dead, dead, dead? Not at all. It's starting to bloom again. That's what I think. And I am one who is fighting...
...always had an interest in space and the e-mails I had gotten in the past sounded interesting," attendee Moses P. Bloom '00 said...
...piece's fourth point, Bloom wrote, "Teenagers should have the right to counseling about AIDS...and how to protect themselves from other STDs...
...Professor of Health Policy Robert J. Blendon said Bloom's Public Health Bill of Rights is "an important statement...