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...rising above the set prejudices of both liberals and conservatives, Coles helps depolarize a divided society. He has performed one of the most difficult and important feats of all: to criticize America and yet to love it, to lament the nation's weakness-es?its "greedy, monopolistic, avaricious and sordid sides"?while continuing to cherish...
Stunning Upset. More than one coach has voiced a similar lament when going against the likes of Roger Thomas Staubach and Robert Allen Griese. Everything about the two sons of Aquarius has remained remarkably similar, all the way to the Super Bowl. Both were outstanding high school athletes, Staubach in Cincinnati, Ohio, and Griese in Evansville, Ind. Spurned by Notre Dame, Staubach went to the U.S. Naval Academy, Griese to Purdue. In 1962, in his first game against Army, Sophomore Staubach passed and ran circles around the heavily favored cadets to lead Navy to a stunning upset. The next year...
...Anne; below, the priests of the temple refusing Anne and Joachim's offering. Right panel: above, the meeting of Joachim and Anne at the Golden Gate; below, the commissioning of Mary as a serving maiden in the temple. In the upper portion of the center panel, angels lament above Anne's deathbed as Joachim mourns in a chair near by. Below, the newborn Christ in the arms of Mary, while servants bring swaddling linen...
...other two new Dead songs, "Bertha" and "Playing in the Band," are almost polar opposites. "Bertha," typical of the Dead's blues, is a lament on moving on and leaving a woman. "Playing in the Band," however, is a personal statement on what playing in a group means to one of the members...
...adds to the tone of the songs without obscuring the foreground. Garcia, as always, is Garcia: often out of tune, occasionally absent-minded, but nevertheless, undisciplinedly great. He shoots off long, sinuous strands of pedal steel, especially in "All I Ever Wanted": his guitar turns a semi-Paul McCartney lament into a really moving love song...