Word: karma
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...John singing and playing either guitar or piano (on which he is barely competent), backed by bass and drums. Once again, Phil Spector is listed as producer, but Lennon seems to have wisely restricted him to adding echo and nothing else, giving the whole album the sound of "Instant Karma." All the songs are intensely personal, some of them resembling the feeling of "Julia." (One cut. "Look at Me," uses almost the same melody.) More interesting, however, is that half the songs have some kind of political content, which implies that John may be ditching his simplistic "Give Peace...
...played Brahms." He was a coiled, compact and energetic Israeli of 24, and one of the best-known young pianists in the world. She was 21, and already Britain's leading cellist, a tall, smiling, shy English lass with a stunning kind of farm-fresh beauty. Instant karma. Two weeks later, Barenboim decided he wanted to marry Jacqueline. Six months later he did. Thus began one of the most remarkable relationships, personal as well as professional, that music has known since the days of Clara and Robert Schumann...
...movie). The game metaphor had won out. Politics is a game, see, and if you play politics you play their game. Controlling your own life is a Western myth, man, part of the free will game, 'cause it's in the stars of your own karma, so you'll just have to let it happen. "I don't want mass change," states one hip type who's been living communally and says "ball" a lot, "cause mass change just means mass insanity. I just want to be who I am." Like, Richard Nixon hasn't found himself...
...classmate to have been a Jew who dressed up in preppy clothes and "snuck" into a Final Club, from which exalted position he was constantly threatened with exposure by old high school friends. Now he reports he's a member of the John Birch Society and believes in Karma and reincarnation. Another hopes to send his sons to Harvard and therefore calls himself an optimist, except for his belief that overpopulation will destroy the world before the year 2000. One appears to have achieved reincarnation in this life, being cross-referenced as both Joseph D. MacDonald and Donald Eliot Marks...
...movie). The game metaphor had won out. Politics is a game, see, and if you play politics you play their game. Controlling your own life is a Western myth, man, part of the free will game, cause it's in the stars or your own karma, so you'll just have to let it happen. "I don't want mass change," states one hip type who's been living communally and says "ball" a lot, "cause mass change just means mass insanity. I just want to be who I am." Like, Richard Nixon hasn't found himself...