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...first. The several condescending references to the Yale law school--one would have been enough--show the performers' academic commitments. They tell us that "Law School ain't no place to be in love," and how "This legal tutoring is really neutoring." Even if we are not reduced to sorrow over their plight, these lyrics, along with the trials and tribulations depicted in the script, afford the law students copious opportunity to wallow in self-pity...
...rule of one tribe for the sole benefit of its own people -the whites. The now familiar witch hunts begin: discrimination, forced removal of blacks to "homelands," detentions without trial and "racial classification" tests. What should be a period of progress becomes a harvest of sorrow and cruelty...
...refugees the sorrow of exile is the crudest pain of all. When they finally arrive at their longed-for destination, there comes a time for tears. Like travelers shipwrecked on an alien island, they weep over their lost homeland, their abandoned relatives and friends...
...enough, but it really belongs to another poem. The sense of advocated surrender in the final stanza is unmistakable. Not that Reagan would be unusual in having contemplated death as a way out of adolescence, but one does not think of his early life as having been touched with "sorrow and pain." Of course, the poem might simply have been the product of a bad moment. But even a momentary touch of desperation is interesting in such...
...over Kosygin's unceremonious exit from power. Last week news of Kosygin's death of a heart attack in the Kremlin hospital was treated in more generous fashion. A day and a half after the event, the Soviet government and Communist Party made the announcement "with deep sorrow...