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William G. Mayer '79, an Adams representative, said after Grady introduced his original resolution, "It's a rotten precedent to vote on an important issue when the majority of members are not here...
...Evereadys, take matters up to the minute. Young sings several of his unreleased songs. Two of them-a rock-'n'-roll anthem called Out of the Blue and into the Black ("The king is gone but he's not forgotten/ This is a song about Johnny Rotten") and a long, spooky tune called Powderfinger - are among the best things he has done. But Young is not immune to the coyness and irresolution that plague Dylan. Roadies from Star Wars and sound mixers in wizard regalia can get as tiresome as Dylan's mocking show-biz turns...
...whether you're any different. Brecht's script keeps up a steady fire of political comment, and his socialism slips in discreetly enough so that even American audiences in the '50s could stomach it. But it's Weill's brooding, often harsh music--so evocative of Weimar Germany's rotten core--that fixes The Threepenny Opera's world of human iniquity and mortality in the audience's mind. Maybe it's just a case of the fascination of the grotesque: the songs aren't beautiful, but you don't forget them...
Nothing should prevent a group that can produce brilliant music like this from making it. If anything does stop Blondie, it will be rotten lyrics. "Just Go Away" sets some great music to the following words...
...politicians in this state are nothing short of rotten...