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...everyone heard Guthrie’s original lyrics protesting the plight of people who “stood there hungry” in line at the relief office; George H.W. Bush, an unrepentant booster of privatization and welfare reduction, somehow managed to use “This Land?? during his presidential campaigns...
Springsteen himself is known for covering “This Land?? on tour, prefacing his performances with the song’s full backstory, making it clear that his own anthem “Born in the U.S.A.” falls in the same camp as Guthrie’s protest song. The Boss wasn’t wrapping himself in the flag in this song, but calling out a nation for their callous treatment of Vietnam vets. Like Guthrie’s work, the song was misunderstood and appropriated by politicians, this time within a matter...
Despite Flowers’ showboating, I think it’s safe to say that people will be humming “This Land is Your Land?? and “Born in the U.S.A.” long after Killers songs like “Bling (Confessions of a King)” are reduced to iTunes Music Store bargain bins. Whether they understand the intent behind the music is another story...
...photographs in “Adventures in IR-Land?? are grey and strange, with a slippery artificiality that has the effect of collapsing distance. That is to say, they look like Mather House, except they’re beautiful. Currently on exhibition in Mather’s Three Columns Gallery, these photographs are perplexing, visually arresting works. For the gallery’s curator and director, Amber J. Musser ’02, they also reflect a deepening understanding of Three Columns’ place in the house community. Artist J. Michael Sullivan made the digital photographs...
...anti-environment, as some on the left are wont to do, ignores its historical tendency. Ironically, Republicans were among the original conservationists. Their pragmatic environmental policies, pioneered in the early 20th century, have served the nation well until recently. It is that original approach of balanced use of public land??rather than a complete protectionist policy, as some environmentalists advocate—that America must return to.Bush’s ideology bears only the most distant relationship to the original Republican environmental ethos—the conservationism of Gifford Pinchot, a turn-of-the-century Republican...