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...report, then, that on his new album, Pilgrim (Reprise), Clapton sounds weaker than he has in years. It's a compromised, blues-tinged pop-rock album, with drippy melodies and cautious, manicured guitar solos. What it reminds one of is this: on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, amid the high-fashion shops and trendy eateries, there's a House of Blues restaurant/nightclub that's designed to look like a rural, rusted tin shack. Frankly, it looks stupid and out of place. Listening to Pilgrim, one gets the same feeling--there's no room for blues roughness on this...
Although several of the songs on Pilgrim deal with the death of Clapton's four-year-old son Conor in 1991, the impersonal, generic pop gloss of this album prevents us from really communing with his pain. The confessional My Father's Eyes, the CD's opening number, is so polished and plodding it never comes close to evoking emotion in the listener--unless you consider boredom an emotion. As for the next cut, River of Tears, it has a central metaphorical construction so lazy that one half expects the next track to be titled Needle in a Haystack. Simple...
...Professor Jones" is nearing completion of a two-volume history of Native Americans in New England. He has worked on the project for seven years. Most of his research was conducted in Widener Library, where he has a study carrel. Pilgrim Press has reviewing the manuscript and would like to publish the book under the title, The Harvard History of Native Americans in New England...
...this title can be used, Pilgrim Press will pay Professor Jones a 20 percent royalty, and Professor Jones will contribute half of his earnings to the University for the support of the History Department. If Harvard's name cannot be used in the title, Pilgrim will pay only a 10 percent royalty, and Professor Jones will not contribute any of the earnings to the University...
...less town-proud note, Hamad sees the competition for pilgrim dollars as a major challenge for the Palestinian Authority: ?You can see Jesus? birthplace in two minutes. After that, you need to eat lunch or dinner, to relax or stay in a hotel ? Bethlehem lacks these facilities, and we cannot attract tourists unless they are built.? In other words, 2,000 years after Christ?s birth, visitors to the town are still unlikely to find room...