Word: roll
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many of them, the reason may be medical. The young aren't listening because they can't hear. Just as nagging parents have long suspected, otologists now report that youngsters are going deaf as a result of blasting their eardrums with electronically amplified rock 'n' roll...
...discothèques and rock-'n'-roll joints, the trouble is not so much in the instruments themselves, or even the sustained fortissimi or the close quarters. The blame goes to the electronic amplifiers. An old-fashioned oompah military band, playing a Sousa march in Central or Golden Gate Park, generated as much sound. But the sound was not amplified, and was dissipated in the open air. A trombonist sitting in front of a tuba player might be a bit deaf for an hour or so after a concert; then his hearing returned to normal. A microphone hooked...
Youngsters roll on the ground, tussling, teasing each other and gleefully aping their elders. They climb the tropical trees with abandon and plunge happily into cooling water-holding their noses when they dunk. Despite the similarities, the equatorial playground, at the edge of a 12,000-acre forest preserve on Borneo is no boys' camp. It is the Malaysian state of Sabah's experimental center for the rehabilitation of orangutans...
There is a savage joy in yielding oneself up to Rhetoric. As the flinging (over-embracing) phrases roll out one is only too willing to submit to the force that drives them, the force of eloquence, of excitement, of head-busting grandeur. For an instant (it should not be for more than an instant for that is the way to Demagoguery) the literal truth of a statement is submerged in its origiastic flow of energy. An artist cannot be called irresponsible if he is galloping and pretty...
...close listening to the Reprise will reveal that Paul is shouting something in the background. This is supposed to be clearer on the mono copies. At the very end of the Reprise the group in the background starts singing the chorus to an old Rock and Roll song called "Farmer John." You can find out who sang it in the Yellow record catalogue at College Music Shop in Central Square...