Word: songs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...1970s a TV cartoon series called Schoolhouse Rock used catchy tunes to teach children about everything from verbs to the Constitution. Now teacher Ross Kapstein of Atlanta has given that idea an '80s twist by writing and recording a rap-song tribute to the basic theories of economics. Employing a funky beat and styling the title, RUN G.N.P., after rap stars Run-D.M.C., Kapstein hopes to help his seventh-graders at Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School remember concepts like the law of supply and demand. Sample verse: "People's tastes change and so do I/ If I want...
ROSANNE CASH: HITS 1979-1989 (Columbia). She's got a half-past-4-in-the- morning voice and a knowing way with a song that can make any listener wish the night would go on forever...
...reprimanding of a first-year student last week who sang a political song in the Union has brought to light a dining hall policy that may "stifle political debate," the student said yesterday...
Paul N. Gailiunas '92 said he was told on Wednesday he could not return to the dining hall to perform after he sang an anti-ROTC song. Gailiunas, who had previously been on good terms with dining hall officials, arranged permission to sing by promising he would not raise political issues, he said...
...makes a great deal of difference what he's singing about," she said. For example, if Gailiunas' song advertised a rally instead of attacking a group, Dining Services would approve it, she said...