Word: songs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When I was in the West last summer, there was one song that people requested from country bands at just about every bar I went to. It is a bad song: John Denver's "Country Roads." Still, the words express the yearnings of many American workers...
...watching the backstage counterpart to these on stage strategy "huddles," which last about a minute during an interlude of piano improves. I knew vaguely what I was in for from the start: while one or more of the actors spin off their impromptu concatenations of wit through either a song or some kind of personal encounter (in Confucianist, "Sun Yat Moon," might lecture on vices to some Process people in the Square), their colleagues are "in the pit" furiously scribbling down rhymed verse, puns, or plotty narratives for the upcoming scene. The room became a jack...
...then there was Watergate, remember that? Remember all of the song-and-dance routines back then like "There Will be No Whitewash at the White House," and "I Will Not Place the Blame on Subordinates." Surely you can't forget that catchy tune. "Nobody Has Cornered the Morality Market," and the ever-popular "In the Interests of National Security...
...Amen corner have got this world in a hell of a state!" and later on, in a reenactment of the break-in, cheap violins and restaurant noises copped from a grade B mafia movie provide background for a lobster dinner before the break-in, and the theme song from "Mission Impossible" plays as the narrator recounts the details of the burglary itself...
...they been on Boylston Street their opinion would not have been much different. To march down Boylston would surely be a symbolic victory, but the civil rights movement had plenty of those and people still stone black children. "We shall overcome..." is a beautiful song, but the issue is not spiritual it is nuts and bolts. Do not stone the buses. Build better schools. People do not have to like each other, a little respect is all that is needed. But nobody wants to assume that load, so the brunt of it falls on the schoolchildren. Ant they...