Word: sidings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hubbard does not reach her nadir, however, until the second side of the album. The second cut, "Arabia," is introduced to us with the following notes...
...Harvard football team picked a leader on the other side of the line yesterday, electing defensive tackle Chuck Burst as its 107th captain...
...final song on side one, "Ambush," is Marley's reflection on an incident that occurred when he tolerated the Jamaican political system. Marley had agreed to stage a benefit concert for labor party leader, Michael Manley. Days before the concert, professional gunmen ambushed Marley and his friends, killing one person. Rumors circulated that the attack had been a move by Manley to throw suspicion on his rivals just before the national election. Marley opens the song by mocking the values of the Jamaican power elite. He then asserts that his power to rally black Jamaicans against the system...
...side two, Marley continues to blast Bablyon. He points to the American insistence on going to the moon while Jamaicans went hungry as an example of the flaws in ruling class morality. In "Zimbabwe" Marley sings out, proclaiming once again the need for force...
Step one of Bernal's grand plan has been accomplished. The Crimson is recognized as the team to beat in the Eastern League this year, and Harvardians from the Yard to 60 Boylston St. have awakened to the fact that there is more on the other side of the river than frisbee fields and case studies in Baker Library...