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...Silver & Gold (Reprise...
Throughout his career, Neil Young's musical style has swung from periods of intense electric to pensive acoustic. Young's latest album is a return to the latter. Silver & Gold picks up where Harvest Moon left off eight years ago. All of the album's ten songs are love songs, in some form, and set to a folk or country sound. For most rockers, this combination may sound silly, but for Young the effect is sweet and touching. His lyrics are direct, which sometimes works well, as on the ballad "Good to See You"-"Good to see you/Good...
What's a good metaphor for a Harvard student? A talking, gold-plated pile of manure, wearing a fleece. What joke should you put in your Ivy Oration (the funny one on class day) tryout speech if you want it to bomb like Osama Bin Laden? See above...
...encourage students having fun than the Harvard administration does. And of course, there are those disheartening Harvard sections ("Well, I didn't do the reading, but I'm reminded of what Nietzsche said..."--"I'm sorry, this is a physics class"). During these sections, we do seem like gold-plated piles of manure--well-packaged but ultimately full of the same old crap. Exposed to this side of Harvard for too long, I became bitter without even knowing...
...graduates of the Class of 2000 and all you other gold-plated undergraduates, you won't be seeing me on stage during Class Day. But I'll be glad to be unbitter in the audience, knowing I've augmented myself substantially...